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Newspaper or magazine article

General format

Print newspaper article

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Article title. Newspaper title, pages.

Online newspaper article

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Article title. Newspaper title, pages. URL

Magazine article

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Article title. Magazine title, volume(issue), pages. DOI or URL

Examples

Print newspaper article

Smith, P. (2020, January 16). Google to sweep up its digital cookie crumbs. The Australian Financial Review, 3.

Online newspaper article

Evershed, N., Graham, C., Henson, D. F., & Patching, R. (2016, June 20). Who and what makes the most noise in Australian parliament? The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2016/jun/20/who-and-what-makes-the-most-noise-in-the-australian-parliament

Magazine article

Alter, C., Haynes, S., & Worland, J. (2019, December 23–30). The conscience. Time, 194(2728), 3237. 

Style notes

  • Use an en dash instead of a regular hyphen for the page range.
    • Mac - Press option+hyphen
    • Windows Desktop - Press control+minus key on numeric keypad
    • Windows Laptop - Insert symbol (choose subset General Punctuation)
  • If there are no page numbers, add a full stop after the publication title.
  • If there is no DOI or URL available, leave it out.