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How to Cite a Newsletter in APA

Citations enable readers of your work to locate the sources you used in creating it. Additionally, readers use citations to assess the credibility of your work. Even a well-written, thorough, scholarly article may be discredited if it is built on questionable references. Above all, citations give credit to the authors of the original works on which you based your research. The American Psychological Association (APA) citation format is most commonly used by the social sciences. To avoid plagiarism, citations are necessary for articles in newsletters and can be done in APA style.

Instructions

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  Write the last name of the newsletter author, followed by a comma.
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  Write the first initial of the author, followed by a period.
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  Write the year the newsletter was published, a comma, and the month or season in parentheses; put a period after the last parenthesis.
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  Write the title of the newsletter in italics, followed by a period; only capitalize the first letter, proper nouns, and the first initial after a colon.
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  Write the title of the organization publishing the newsletter, followed by "Newsletter."
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  Write the volume number, followed by the issue number in parentheses and a period.
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  Cite the relevant pages of the newsletter, if the newsletter is paginated.

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