Africa Growth Pilot/Online self-paced course/Module 4/Question about citing multiple sources

Another question: "How many references make an article? If we have five different newspapers reporting the same thing about an incident, how should we construct that?"

You can cite all five if you like. Usually citing one or two is enough, but if there is some question of whether or not it happened, or if you have different information in the five different reports, by all means cite them all. You could cite one for where it happened, and then you can cite another for the number of people killed. And you could cite a third one that brings an eyewitness statement that the others didn't bring. There may be reasons to cite all five sources.