Citing untitled newspaper items

By ttop on Fri, 04/25/2025 - 08:19

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I've been transcribing and citing many items from small-town newspapers recently – and I updated from EE 2nd edition to 4th edition. I couldn't quite find a clear example of citing an untitled newspaper item and I was hoping for some guidance on the preferred style.

Here's an example – these are very small entries.

 Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Yock have moved into the E. A. Reyman house recently vacated by the T. E. Krahler family.

Should this be cited as

“Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Yock…," The Correctionville News (Correctionville, Iowa), 24 May 1923, p. 5, col. 3; imaged, Community History Archive - Correctionville (https://correctionville.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?fn=correctionville_news_usa_iowa_correctionville_19230524_english_5&cid=2823 : accessed 25 April 2025).

with an ellipsis followed by a comma

or 

“Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Yock…" (etc)

with just an ellipsis

or 

"Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Yock," (etc)

with just a comma 

or something more like

“Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Yock…" [untitled item], (etc)

with a notation indicating "untitled item"?

Thanks for your guidance.

-Todd 
Seattle

Submitted byEEon Sat, 04/26/2025 - 09:08

Todd, your first example or your last example would work. The last is more explicit.

Typically, with these "local gossip" items in small newspapers, there is some type of header that covers all the news bits. That's not the case in this case. (Thanks for posting a link to the original.)