How to Cite a Newspaper Article Steve Poppino CSI Library 6/12/2012

This is how a newspaper article citation looks when you copy it from MasterFILE Premier. It needs some work.

In APA style, start with the author: Last name first, followed by initials.

Next comes the date of the issue of the newspaper. It’s a daily, so include the month, day, and year. The year comes first, because it is an important part of in-text citations.

Next comes the title of the article. Notice that for this title, only the first word gets a capital letter.

Next comes the title of the newspaper. All the main words are capitalized, and in italics. Leave out the words “Eastern Edition” because this newspaper is distributed all over the U.S.

Now type the page number of the article. A newspaper article will often have a letter for the section as well as a number for the page. If you found this article in a paper copy of the Wall Street Journal, this is all the information that you need to cite it.

If you found this article online, either on the Wall Street Journal website or in a Library database, finish the citation with the URL of the newspaper. It does not matter whether or not you can actually open the article at this website without a subscription. To the APA, this is the “online home” of this article.