Skip to Main Content

APA Citations: Newspapers & Magazine Articles

Quick Links

APA Style Guide Homepage

Learn the APA citation style directly from the authors.  The APA Style website provides guidance, formatting, and examples of how to cite within the APA style. 


Purdue Online Writing Lab: APA Style Guide

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides writing resources and instructional materials for writing projects.  The APA Style Guide includes an introduction to the style, citation formatting for various sources, formatting for in-text citations and reference lists, and more.


Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association: The Official Guide to APA Style

Citing Newspapers & Magazines

Magazine Basic Form

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

 

Physical Magazine 

Lyons, D. (2009, June 15). Don't ‘iTune’ us: It’s geeks versus writers. Guess who’s winning. Newsweek153(24), 27.

 

Physical Magazine Located Online (with DOI)

Schaefer, N. K., & Shapiro, B. (2019, September 6). New middle chapter in the story of human evolution. Science, 365(6457), 981–982. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3550

 

Online Magazine

Schulman, M. (2019, September 9). Superfans: A love story. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/superfans-a-love-story

 

Newspaper Basic Form

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Newspaper, section numbers. https://url

 

Physical Newspaper with Section Numbers 

Harlan, C. (2013, April 2). North Korea vows to restart shuttered nuclear reactor that can make bomb-grade plutonium. The Washington Post, A1, A4.

 

Online Newspaper

Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html