How to Cite Newspaper and Magazine Articles in IEEE

Choose the Newspaper or Magazine Record

An IEEE newspaper citation keeps the reporter, headline, news source, and publication date together. For an online news article, add its direct URL. The IEEE Reference Guide has separate News Articles patterns for print and online access. Its online pattern retains the publication date, which matters when several stories cover the same event.

[n] A. A. Reporter, “Article title,” Newspaper Title, Mon. day, year.

[n] A. A. Reporter, “Article title,” News Source, Mon. day, year. [Online]. Available: https://direct-article-url

A technical magazine article with a volume, issue, printed page range, and DOI can use the periodical pattern. A magazine website may also publish dated news stories without those fields. Inspect the individual article before deciding which record you have. The word “magazine” in the site name alone cannot supply an issue number.

In your manuscript, number references in order of first citation. Use the same number whenever you cite that article again. A short news reference might appear as Davies reports the announcement [1]. The number points to the complete reference at the end of the paper.

Two Real Records to Check Before Formatting

These field cards preserve the source identities used in the examples. The newspaper card describes an online article. The technical magazine card describes an issue publication with a DOI. We also checked the related Spectrum webpage to show where the versions diverge.

An Online Newspaper Citation

This manually assembled example uses the publisher's publication timestamp in GMT. The page metadata gives 2013-12-24T00:01:52.000Z; an EST display falls on December 23. Keep the timezone with your working notes if your displayed date differs. The date in a URL is a clue to investigate, not a replacement for the article's publication record.

An IEEE Magazine Article Citation

The DOI registration lists three names. The Spectrum version credits Mori as the essay author and identifies Karl F. MacDorman and Norri Kageki as translators. Preserve those role differences when checking an imported record. The issue-based example follows the DOI record's three-name credit; the web version below follows its displayed author credit.

Separate the Reporter From the Interview Subject

Start with the article's byline. Someone named in the headline or quoted in the story is not automatically an author. In the newspaper example, Davies supplies the byline and Turing is the subject. Replacing the reporter with the subject would make the reference identify the wrong creator.

The same check applies to a published interview. Cite the published article using its credited writer or interviewer, and name the interviewee in your sentence when needed. A portrait credit identifies the photographer; it does not establish the article author. Keep a wire-service credit when the article actually names that agency as responsible for the text.

An interview you conducted privately has a different retrieval problem. Readers cannot follow a newspaper URL to your recording or notes. Follow your venue's personal-communication requirements for that material. This guide's news format applies to published articles that readers can identify and retrieve.

Check Print Date, Issue, Section, and Pages

For a physical newspaper, inspect the article and the issue itself. Note the date, edition if stated, section, and printed page labels. A newspaper's web section label does not prove that the story appeared in the matching print section. A PDF viewer's “page 3 of 8” also cannot establish a printed page such as B3.

The IEEE news pattern above does not require a page field. If your course or publication asks for print pages or an edition, use the details on the copy you consulted. Retain section letters in page labels. For a story continuing on nonconsecutive pages, record the actual pages according to that venue's instructions; a continuous range would imply intervening pages you have not checked.

For the Mori magazine record, the volume, issue, and pages come from the DOI registration for that publication. They belong to IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. They should not be added to a citation whose container is IEEE Spectrum. Use the IEEE journal abbreviations guide when checking a periodical title such as IEEE Robot. Autom. Mag.

Cite the Online Edition You Actually Read

Spectrum links its essay to the June 2012 magazine issue. That connection lets us verify a related issue publication, but the webpage has its own headline and container. An online news-style reference for that page is therefore a separate version choice.

Spectrum's publication metadata gives June 12, 2012, while its modification metadata gives February 9, 2023. A modification timestamp alone does not explain what changed in the essay. The example retains the publication date; if an explicitly revised passage is central to your claim, record the visible update information and preserve the version you used.

You would normally choose [2] or [3] for the version you consulted. Both appear here to demonstrate the distinction. For changing coverage, retain a dated copy or archive link in your notes. Add an access date when your venue requires one. The IEEE News Articles online pattern shown above does not itself include that field. Ordinary webpages have a different pattern, covered in the IEEE website citation guide.

Use the Generator With a Final Field Check

This site has no dedicated newspaper or magazine editor. For the DOI-based magazine record, the Journal article tool can format volume, issue, pages, month, year, and DOI. Check the imported names and title against the publication record before copying the result.

For news, the Website tool can help collect the author, headline, site, and URL. Its output follows the ordinary website pattern and omits the publication date, even when that date is stored in the editor. Manually assemble the news-style reference from the template above so the date survives. Do not relabel a newspaper as a journal just to obtain a date field.

Before submitting, follow each URL and compare the byline and headline with the reference. Recheck the date against the version cited. If your entry contains print pages, be able to point to the issue record or printed copy that supplies them.

Sources and Example Notes

Examples were manually assembled on October 16, 2026. Format guidance uses the IEEE Reference Guide, sections News Articles and Periodicals, checked against the locally retained V3.28.2025 text, and Murdoch University's news examples. The linked publisher pages and Crossref's DOI metadata supply the source fields. Follow your target journal or instructor's requirements where they differ.