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McGill Style Guide (10th ed).

Newspapers & Magazines

Follow the order of information, punctuation, and capitalization in the examples below. See section 6.11 and 6.12 of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (10th ed.).

Author’s First Name Second Name (if given) Last Name, “Title of Article” Title of Newspaper/Magazine (Day Month Year) Pinpoint (if needed), online:<URL> [Archived URL].

NOTE: For print magazines with a volume and issue number, include them after the magazine title (e.g., 12:4) (see section 6.11). According to the McGill Guide, provide the original URL as well as an archived URL to online sources. It's recommended that you use a permalink system for the archived URL (see section 1.6). 

Example

Andrea Yu, "How to Upskill for Entrepreneurship in the New Economy", The Globe and Mail (3 December 2024), online:<theglobeandmail.com> [https://www.proquest.com/blogs-podcasts-websites/how-upskill-entrepreneurship-new-economy/docview/3135042205/se-2?accountid=3455].

Your professor may have different citing expectations than library staff. Always check at the beginning of term and before starting assignments that the citing rules you are using are appropriate for your class.