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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: G. Newspaper Article from an Online Newspaper

About Citing Articles

For each type of source in this guide, the general form and specific examples will be provided for both the Notes-Bibliography and the Author-Date style options of Turabian.

This information and several of the examples were drawn from A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations (9th edition). Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

For further information, please ask your instructor or refer to the Turabian manual.

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Newspaper Article from an Online Newspaper

When citing newspaper articles that are read online, follow the basic pattern for print newspaper articles and also include an access date and URL.  If the article is accessed through a subscription database, you may include the name of the database instead of the URL (pp. 193; 260).
 
 
 

Notes-Bibliography Style (pp. 192-193):

General Format

Note:
Note Number. Author First Name/Initial Author Last Name, "Title of Article: Subtitle of Article," Newspaper Title, Date of Publication, URL.
 
 
Bibliographic Entry:
Author Last Name, First Name/Initial. "Title of Article: Subtitle of Article." Newspaper Title, Date of Publication. URL.
 
 
 

Examples

Note:
22. Richard Simon, "Redistricting Could Cost California Some Clout in Washington," Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2011, https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-california-congress-20110829,01873016.story.

 

Bibliographic Entry:

Simon, Richard. "Redistricting Could Cost California Some Clout in Washington." Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2011. https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-california-congress-20110829,01873016.story.

 
 
 

Author-Date Style (pp. 259-261):

General Format

Parenthetical Citation:
(Author Last Name Year)
 
 
Reference List Entry:
Author Last Name, First Name/Initial. Year. "Title of Article: Subtitle of Article." Newspaper Title, Additional Date Information. URL.
 
 
 

Examples

Parenthetical Entry:
(Simon 2011)
  
Reference List Entry:
Simon, Richard. 2011. "Redistricting Could Cost California Some Clout in Washington." Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2011. https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-california-congress-20110829,01873016.story.

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