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General Format:
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Author's Last Name, year)
In-Text Citation (Direct Quote):
(Author's Last Name, year, page number)
References:
Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year, Month Day). Article title. Newspaper Title, page range.
Examples:
In-text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Mitchell, 2009)
In-text Citation (Direct Quote):
(Mitchell, 2009, p. B3)
References:
Mitchell, T. (2009, June 5). Men's health. USA Today, pp. B1, B3.
General Format:
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Author's Last Name, year)
In-Text Citation (Direct Quote):
(Author's Last Name, year, page number)
References:
Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year, Month Day). Article title. Newspaper Title. Retrieved from URL of newspaper homepage
Examples:
In-text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Mitchell, 2009)
In-text Citation (Direct Quote):
(Mitchell, 2009)
References:
Mitchell, T. (2009, June 5). Men's health. USA Today. Retrieved from http://www.usatoday.com/
Citation information has been adapted from the APA Manual (6th Edition). Please refer to page 200 of the APA Manual (6th Edition) for more information.
-Denote page numbers for newspaper articles with p. or pp.
-Cite all pages of an article that spans over multiple pages and separate the discontinuous pages by commas. For example: (pp. A1, A3-A4, A6).