LibGuides: APA 7 Referencing Style: Newspaper Articles

Newspaper Articles

Reference List	*Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Title of newspaper, p. or pp.* Duke, J. (2020, September 25). Super fund in push on emissions. Age, p. 5.
Notes	It is not necessary to include the retrieval date or database name when sourced via the library databases (eg. Factiva). Used for print versions of newspapers.

Source: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed., p. 320); APA Style Newspaper Article References.

Reference List	Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article.Title of newspaper. https://xxxxxx Woodford, J. (2020, January 17). Wollemi pines' survival shows what humans can do when determined. Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/17/wollemi-pines-time-travellers-from-a-different-australia
Notes	"Retrieved from" no longer required in front of the URL.

Source: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed., p. 320); APA Style Newspaper Article References.

Reference List	*Title of article. (Year, Month Day). Title of newspaper. https://xxxxxx* Australian Community Media joins fight for press freedom and your right to know. (2019, October 21). Newcastle Herald. https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6447711/its-time-to-fight-for-your-right-to-know/?cs=7573
Notes	"Retrieved from" no longer required in front of the URL.

Source: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed., p. 320); APA Style Newspaper Article References.

Reference List

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Title of online news source. https://xxxxxx

Osborn, A. & Zverev, A. (2020, January 16). Russian Parliament backs Putin' s pick for PM after 'January revolution'. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-mishustin/russian-parliament-backs-putins-pick-for-pm-after-january-revolution-idUSKBN1ZF0N8

No author

Title of article. (Year, Month Day). Title of online news source. https://xxxxxx

Australian Government's coronavirus tracing app COVIDSafe downloaded 1 million times. (2020, April 27). ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-27/coronavirus-tracing-app-covidsafe-one-million-downloads/12187806

Notes

Used for news websites, rather than an online newspapers. (eg. ABC News, HuffPost, CNN, Reuters, BBC News)
Where page numbers are not provided give the paragraph number using the abbreviation para.
If headings are used cite the first few words of the heading and the number of the paragraph following to direct the reader e.g. (Regolith, 2010, "On the Earth" para. 6).

Source: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed., p. 351); APA Style Webpage on a news website.

In-text referencing

Direct Quotes: You are required to use page numbers for quotes. See also: Direct quotation of material without page numbers.		Author notes: Include the surname/s of the author and year. For example, No author (note capitalisation): The Life of Insects (1979) or (The Life of Insects, 1979) One author: Seaton (2018) or (Seaton, 2018) Two authors: Grant and Grant (2018) or (Grant & Grant, 2008) Three or more authors: Fraser et al. (2014) or (Fraser et al., 2014) Group / corporate author: La Trobe University (2018) or (La Trobe University, 2018) See Style notes for more information.
Author Prominent	Larkin (2004) claims that Paine's writings "represented a turning point in the revolution" (p. 10). Bakris et al. (2010) found this applied to "15 patients (4%) in the darusentan treatment" (p. 828)
Information Prominent	"Paine's choice of metaphors, diction, syntax, and evidence were crucial to his success" (Larkin, 2004, p. 26) It was found that "individuals can discriminate between members of their own and a closely related sympatric species on the basis of song and beak morphology" (Grant & Grant, 2008, p. 78).
Paraphrasing: You may* include page numbers if it would help your reader locate the relevant passage in a long or complex text.*
Author Prominent	Benesch (2001) described the function of the rhetorical-grammatical process chart. Chambers et al. (2013) state the benefit of working collaboratively.
Information Prominent	It was suggested that the packaging made a difference (Bakris et al., 2010). International students are reporting higher levels than domestic students (Australian Council for Educational Research, 2010).