Newspaper articles
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.