Article in a newspaper (online)

Works cited entry

Rubin, Joel. “Report Faults Charter School.” Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2005. Web. 24 Jan. 2005.

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Give the following:

  • the author

  • the title of the article, in quotation marks

  • the name of the newspaper's Web site, italicized

  • the sponsor of the Web site

  • the date of publication or update

  • the medium (“Web”)

  • your date of access

Note on using a URL in a works cited entry

If your instructor requires a URL for Web sources, include the URL, enclosed in angle brackets, at the end of the entry.

Shiva, Vandana. “Bioethics: A Third World Issue.” NativeWeb. NativeWeb, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2006. <http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html>.

When a URL in a works cited entry must be divided at the end of a line, break it after a slash. Do not insert a hyphen.

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