APA 7th Edition is the most commonly used referencing style here at the University of Portsmouth. Below you will find general guidance on how to reference and cite using APA 7th Edition, as well as examples for the specific sources you are likely to use in your assignments. 

Your department or lecturer may prefer you to reference sources differently from the guidance given here. Always follow the requirements of your department or lecturer. 

External visitors are welcome to use this guide, but note that your institution's requirements may differ from those suggested here.

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Treat these sources as online newspaper articles.

Online news article with single author 

Reference 

If the online news site doesn't give page numbers, omit them from your reference.

Author, Initials. (Year, Month Date). Title of article. Title of Newspaper/Name of website, start and end page numbers. URL

Howard, H. (2021, June 16). Stop, collaborate and listen - Ice is back cos a horse went missin': Vanilla Ice hopes to solve mystery of who kidnapped Shergar in new podcast. Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9691929/Vanilla-Ice-hopes-solve-mystery-kidnapped-Shergar-new-podcast.html

Morris, C. (2021, June 16). Brexit: Can the UK and the EU reach a deal on Northern Ireland? BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/57475591

In-text Citation

If the article doesn't have any page numbers you can use paragraph numbers in place of pages if you need to use them. You should use para. in place of p. to show this is what you are doing. For information about the use of page and paragraph numbers within in-text citations, please see our guidance here.

It was reported that... (Howard, 2021).

Morris (2021, para. 8) reported that...

 

Online news article with two authors

Reference 

If the online news site doesn't give page numbers, omit them from your reference.

Author, Initials., & Author, Initials. (Year, Month Date). Title of article. Title of Newspaper/Name of website, start and end page numbers. URL

Mohdin, A., & Campbell, L. (2020, November 13). ‘So many people care!’ The young Britons whose lives were changed by Black Lives Matter. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/13/how-black-lives-matter-has-inspired-a-generation-of-new-uk-activists

In-text Citation 

If the article doesn't have any page numbers you can use paragraph numbers in place of pages if you need to use them. You should use para. in place of p. to show this is what you are doing. For information about the use of page and paragraph numbers within in-text citations, please see our guidance here.

It was reported that... (Mohdin & Campbell, 2020).

Mohdin and Campbell (2020, para. 2) highlighted concerns... 

 

If your article has more than two authors, please follow the guidance here

 

Online news article with no named author

Reference 

If the author of an article is unknown, move the title of the article to the author position at the beginning of the reference.

If the online newspaper doesn't give page numbers, omit them from your reference.

Title of article. (Year, Month Date). Title of Newspaper/Name of website, start and end page numbers. URL

Queen's Birthday honours: Red Arrows pilot trust founder appointed OBE. (2021, June 12). BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-57441996

In-text Citation 

Use the first few significant words of the title in your in-text citation. As the title is not italicised in the reference, use double quotation marks around the title in the in-text citation.

If the article doesn't have any page numbers you can use paragraph numbers in place of pages if you need to use them. You should use para. in place of p. to show this is what you are doing. For information about the use of page and paragraph numbers within in-text citations, please see our guidance here.

It was reported that... ("Queens birthday honours", 2021). 

In "Queens birthday honours" (2021, para. 5) it was reported that...