How to do in text citations mla for newspaper articles

Q: How do I cite an online newspaper article in MLA?

Newspaper Article From a Website Authors Last Name, First Name. Title of Article: Subtitle if Any. Title of Website, Date of Publication, URL. Accessed Day Month Year site was visited.

Newspaper Article From a Library Database

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Name of Newspaper [city of newspaper if city name not in name], Date of Publication, p. Page number if given. Name of Database.

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Newspaper Article in Print
Newspaper Article in Print
Newspaper Article from a Website
Newspaper Article from a Library Database
How do you Intext cite a newspaper article?
How do I cite an online newspaper article in MLA?

Note: If the author's name is not listed, begin the citation with the title of the article.

Works Cited Example

Schmidt, Sarah. "Companies Fail the Test; Junk Food Marketing Aimed at Kids Faulted." The Gazette [Montreal], 10 Mar. 2010, p. A.11. Canadian Newsstand.

Note: If an article ends with a question mark or exclamation mark (!), you do not need to add a period to mark the end of the title.

In-Text Citation Example

(Author's Last Name Page Number)

(Schmidt A11)

Note: If an article is only one page long, you do not need to provide the page number in the in-text citation.

Note: If there is no author listed, the in-text citation would include the first word or words of the title of the article in quotation marks, e.g. ("Companies").

Newspaper Article From a Website

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Title of website, Name of Newspaper, Date of Publication, URL. Accessed access date.

Note: If the author's name is not listed, begin the citation with the title of the article.

Works Cited List Example

Morrison, Malcolm. "TSX Recovers on Greece News." thestar.com, Toronto Star, 23 June 2011, www.thestar.com/business/economy/2011/06/23/tsx_recovers_on_greece_news.html. Accessed 7 June 2016.

Note: This entry has no page numbers, so this information is left out of the citation.

In-Text Citation Example

(Author's Last Name)

(Morrison)

Note: This entry has no page numbers, so this information is left out of the citation.

Note: If there is no author listed, the in-text citation would include the first word or words of the title of the article in quotation marks, e.g. ("TSX Recovers").

Newspaper Article in Print

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Name of Newspaper, Date of Publication, p. Page number.

Note: If the author's name is not listed, begin the citation with the title of the article.

Works Cited List Example

Smith, Bill. "Talks on Bosnia Bog Down Over Borders." Toronto Star, 18 Aug. 2012, p. B6.

In-Text Citation Example

(Author's Last Name Page Number)

(Smith B6)

Note: If an article is only one page long, you do not need to provide the page number in the in-text citation.

Note: If there is no author listed, the in-text citation would include the first word or words of the title of the article in quotation marks, e.g. ("Talks").

Newspaper Article in Print

Format

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Name of Newspaper, Date of Publication, p. Page number.

Example

Cook, Lorne. "EU Warns 3 Nations of Legal Action." San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2017, p. A4+.

Note: If the article appears on non-consecutive pages (e.g., the article starts on page 4 then continues on page 12), write the first page number and a plus (+) sign. E.g., 4

Newspaper Article from a Website

Format

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Name of New Publication, Date of Publication, URL.

Example

Litz, Sarah. "All the Fires: What You Need to Know on Size, Containment." Reno Gazette-Journal, 12 July 2017, www.rgj.com/story/news/2017/07/12/farad-fire-updates-size-containment-hills-burn-west-verdi/471293001/.

Note: This entry has no page numbers, so this information is left out of the citation.

Newspaper Article from a Library Database

Format

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Name of Newspaper [city of newspaper if city name not in name], Date of Publication, p. Page number if given. Name of Database, Permalink URL.

Example

Russolillo, Steven. "Why the Housing Market is Getting Stronger: New-home Sales and Quarterly Results from Toll Brothers this Week Should Bolster the Housing Market's Solid Fundamentals." Wall Street Journal, 22 May 2016. ProQuest, unr.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1790256212?accountid=452.

Note: If an article title ends with a question mark or exclamation mark, you do not need to add a period to the end of the title.

How do you Intext cite a newspaper article?

In-Text Citations:.

Citations are placed in the context of discussion using the author's last name and date of publication..

When a work has no identified author, cite in text the first few words of the article title using double quotation marks, “headline-style" capitalization, and the year..

How do I cite an online newspaper article in MLA?

Newspaper Article From a Website Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Title of Website, Date of Publication, URL. Accessed Day Month Year site was visited.