Citation generator - asa for newspaper

In our highly digitalized World, every respected publishing house has its platform to share news and opinions. The sociology field is no exception. You do not have to leave any stone unturned to find ASA newspaper articles. There are dozens of them in the wild: American Sociological Review, City and Community, Society, and Mental Health, to name a few. They specialize in this segment and are filled with a wealth of information on the relevant subjects.

There is more. Students and Sociology fans can also find relevant articles in databases like Sociological Abstracts, Sociology Database, or JSTOR – they are regularly-updated libraries of academic journals, articles, books, and primary resources. Some of them are abstracts on current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.

However, can you use them in your writing assignments? As it turned out, snippets from online newspaper articles are warmly welcome, yet there are two conditions to meet.

First, students must ensure that the online newspaper is credible and respected by the ASA community.

Second, they need to introduce snippets using ASA stylesheet that requires following specific rules for manuscripts, quotes, and citations.

ASA Format for Online Newspaper Article

ASA format for online newspaper article is the same as for other resources. This includes:

• Using 12pt font size set in Times New Roman typeface.
• Footnotes, references, and other elements of text should be double-spaced.
• Block quotes should have a single space.
• Introducing margins on all sides.
• Setting margins at least 1.25 inches or 3cm.

Citations require following these rules as well but introducing a standard stylesheet.

ASA Newspaper Citation

Nailing ASA newspaper citation is pretty much easy when you follow these basic rules:

• Collect data about the author of the article. You need last and first names. Note if the author has a middle name, it should also be mentioned.
• Get the year of publication or when the article was last updated.
• Get the title of the article and set it in double quotations.
• Get the title of the newspaper and set it in italics.
• Feature the precise month and date of publication.
• End citation with page numbers. If the article is on one page, use “p.”; otherwise, use “pp.”

These are practices for creating reference entries for the bibliography page. When it comes to in-text citations, students need to stick to the popular author-year format. This means taking the author’s last name and year of article publication, enclosing them with round brackets, and putting them right after the quotation in the text.