How to cite using APA in the Health Sciences

Elements for a Newspaper Article (Print)

Author name(s). (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Name of the Newspaper, page number(s).

Example

Kaplan, N. (2009, April 2). Don't worry about it: Yoga workshop teaches methods to manage stress. Winnipeg Free Press, D12. 

Elements for a Newspaper Article (Online, from an Associated Daily or Weekly Newspaper)

Author name(s). (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Name of the Newspaper. URL 

Example

Ghassemi, D. (2022, November 22). Across Canada, governments scramble to address family doctor shortage. The Globe and Mail.

https://www.globeandmail.ca/made-up.html

Elements for a News Article (Online, from a Website Without an Associated Daily or Weekly Newspaper)

Author name(s). (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Name of the News Website. URL 

Example

Ruzinski, B. (2024, February 10). Dentists prepare for new Canadian dental plan rollout. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/made-

up.html

Formatting for a News Article (Print and Online)

• Use this formatting for articles that appear in weekly or daily newspapers, such as the Globe and Mail, National Post, New York Times, local newspapers, etc.
• If the article is from a news website (e.g., CBC News, HuffPost) that does not have an associated daily or weekly newspaper—use the format for a webpage on a news website instead, found below.
• Author: Use the author(s) of the article. If there is more than one, list them as they appear in the publication information.
• Date: Use the date that the article was published-- year first, followed by month and day.
• Title: Provide the title of the article in sentence case. Make sure to include the subtitle if there is one.
• Source: The name of the newspaper should be in italics and in title case.
• Include the URL at the end of the entry if the newspaper article is from a publicly accessibly online newspaper. Do not follow with a period.
• If volume, issue, and/or page numbers for the article are missing, omit these elements from the reference.
• If you used a print version of the newspaper article, follow the the newspaper title with a comma and provide the page(s) of the article. Do not include the abbreviations “p.” or “pp.” before the page(s).
• If the newspaper article is from an academic research database, provide the title of the newspaper and any volume, issue, and/or page numbers that are available for the article. Do not include the database or any retrieval information in the reference. If the article does not have volume, issue, or page numbers available, the reference in this case ends with the title of the newspaper.

Formatting for an Article from a News Website 

• Use this format for articles from news websites. Some common examples are CBC News, BBC News, CNN, HuffPost, MSNBC, Reuters, etc. These sites do not have associated daily or weekly newspapers.
• Author: Use the author(s) of the article. If there is more than one, list them as they appear in the publication information.
• Date: Use the date that the article was published-- year first, followed by month and day.
• Title: Provide the title of the article, italicized and in sentence case. Make sure to include the subtitles if there are any.
• Source: The name of the news website should be in title case, but not italicized.
• End the reference with the specific article URL. Do not follow with a period.

What is the difference between sentence and title case? Find out in Formatting Tips.

Don't leave it blank! Find out how to properly indicate that information is missing from one of your reference elements by reading more about missing information.

Information on this page was adapted from "Chapter 10: Reference List", in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.), as well as the APA webpage, "Reference Lists".