AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION (APA) 7TH EDITION
SAMPLE REFERENCE CITATIONS FOR COMMENT ON AN ONLINE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
*The source of these reference samples is: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
sidneyf. (2020, October 7). Oh, I don’t know; perhaps the common-sense conclusion that packing
people together — for hours — like sardines — may be an [Comment on the article “When
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Parenthetical citation: sidneyf (2020)
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Narrative citation: sidneyf (2020)
Credit the person who left the comment as the author using the format that appears with the comment (i.e., a real name or a username). The example shows a username.
Provide the comment title or up to the ?rst 20 words of the comment; then write “Comment on the article” and the title of the article on which the comment appeared (in quotation marks and sentence case, enclosed within square brackets).
Link to the comment itself if possible. Either the full URL or a short URL is acceptable. The example shows a URL that the writer has shortened with the bitly URL shortening service.
If the comment belongs to an article from a news website (e.g., CNN, HuffPost)—one that does not have an associated daily or weekly newspaper—use the format for a comment on a webpage on a news website.
