A citation for a news article should include the following:
For articles accessed online, you may also need:
- Capitalize only the first word of the article's title and subtitle as well as any proper nouns.
- Do not use quotation marks around the article title.
- Italicize the title of the newspaper and capitalize all main words.
- If your citation includes a DOI or URL, do not end the citation with a period.
Article in a Print Newspaper
If an article appears on discontinuous pages, list each of the page numbers on which it appears.
Example:
Newspaper Article, No Author
Begin the citation with the title of the article.
Example:
Roane announcement set. (2009, September 13). Knoxville News Sentinel, p. B2.
Newspaper Article Accessed Online
APA style does not distinguish between articles accessed through a database and articles accessed via the Web. Cite the article as you would a print newspaper, followed by:
Example: