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Referencing style

Newspaper articles

30 September 2023

You can reference newspaper articles with or without authors, in print and electronic formats. This includes examples from newspaper aggregators like Stuff, in APA style. Learn how.

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Author, A. A. (Year, Month Date). Title of article: Subtitle of article. Title of Newspaper, firstpage#–lastpage# if paginated. URL if accessible to all readers

 

 

Reference list

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Date). Title of article: Subtitle of article. Title of Newspaper, firstpage#–lastpage#.

Killick, D. (2012, June 25). Housing is a problem beyond politics. The Press, 17.

 

In-text citation

According to Killick (2012) ... OR ... (Killick, 2012)

 

Reference list

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Date). Title of article: Subtitle of article. Title of Newspaper, firstpage#–lastpage#. URL accessible to all readers or nothing

Northcott, M. (2019, October 16). Christchurch history uncovered in cafe postcards. The Press. https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/116585854/christchurch-history-uncovered-in-cafe-postcards

 

  • Omit missing elements from the reference (e.g., page numbers).

Killick, D. (2012, June 25). Housing is a problem beyond politics. The Press.

 

  • Omit the URL for a website inaccessible to all readers, for example from a library database such as Factiva.

 

In-text citations

According to Northcott (2019) and Killick (2012) ... OR ... (Killick, 2012; Northcott, 2019)

Services like Stuff or Scoop aggregate news content. Don’t use Stuff as the title or author.

 

With a newspaper title

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Date). Title of article: Subtitle of article. Title of Newspaper, firstpage#–lastpage#. URL

Boston, J. (2015, May 18). How New Zealand can cut child poverty. The Dominion Post. https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/68628563/how-new-zealand-can-cut-child-poverty

 

  • Omit missing elements from the reference (e.g., page numbers).

 

Without a newspaper title

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Date). Title of article: Subtitle of article. Website Name. URL

Harris, S. (2016, February 29). Children celebrate 5+ a day challenge. Stuff. https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/77252603/children-celebrate-5-a-day-challenge

 

  • If there is no associated newspaper title, use the format for a webpage on a website.

 

Reference list

Title of article: Subtitle of article. (Year, Month Date). Title of Newspaper, firstpage#–lastpage#. URL accessible to all readers or nothing

Teaming up on health innovation. (2014, September 10). Manawatu Standard. http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/10480728/Teaming-up-on-health-innovation

 

  • The reference list entry starts with the article title and uses sentence case capitalisation.
  • Omit missing elements from the reference (e.g., page numbers).
  • See Sentence Case Capitalization on the APA Style website for more information.

 

In-text citation

(“Teaming up on Health Innovation,” 2014)

  • Use a few words of the article title or the whole article title if it is short.
  • Use title case for article titles appearing in text (i.e., capitals for every major word).
  • See Title Case Capitalization on the APA Style website for more information.
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