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Accessing Resources: Where Do I Start?: Newspaper articles

This guide will teach students how to access information using various library resources and how to insert the information into their research papers.

In Text Citations

Inside your paper, give credit to the works you quote.

See examples of how to tell your readers where facts, paraphrases, or quotes in your paper come from at this site from the Purdue OWL.

Basic Print Newspaper Citation

No Author:

Title of article. (Year, Month Day). Title of Newspaper, Page.

One Author:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of article.

       Title of
Newspaper, Page(s).

Example Newspaper article, no author

Wait till ice cream trucks get wind of this. (2007, November 21). The New York

          Times
,
p. F2.

Example Online Newspaper article, 1 author

Kelley, T. (2000, March 23). Twinkie strike afflicts fans with snack famine. The New York Times.

     Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com