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Citing Newspapers
Online Newspapers
An electronic newspaper article should be cited in the following form (rule 7.11.2):
Author, 'Title', Newspaper (online, Full Date) Pinpoint <URL>.
Pinpoint references should only be included where the article has pages or paragraphs (rule 6.5.3).
Printed Newspapers
Newspaper articles from printed newspapers should be cited in the following form (rule 7.11.1):
Author, 'Title', Newspaper (Place of Publication), Full Date, Pinpoint.
If an article appears in a named section of a newspaper such as 'Sport' or 'Business' and the page numbers throughout the newspaper are not sequential, the name of the section should be included before that of the newspaper in the following form (rule 7.11.1):
Author, 'Title', Section, Newspaper (Place of Publication), Full Date, Pinpoint.
For unsigned articles, the author's name should be omitted (rule 7.11.1). Where the article is an editorial, author should be replaced with "Editorial" as below:
Editorial, 'Title', Section, Newspaper (Place of Publication), Full Date, Pinpoint.
Where there is no punctuation in the source separating the title from a subtitle, a colon or an em-dash should be inserted.