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In-text citations

Paraphrasing

When paraphrasing, include the author(s) family name and year of publication in brackets. Or, if referring to the author(s) family name in the body of the text, then just include the year of publication in brackets immediately after the family name(s).

Kennedy's assassination has … (Hunt, 1963).

Hunt (1963) describes how the assassination of President Kennedy has rocked the world …

Direct quote

Place direct quotes between double quotation marks " " and provide the page number(s) (using p. or pp.) from the newspaper. If no page numbers are provided, then include the paragraph number.

"The world mourns the loss of President Kennedy who was shot …" (Hunt, 1963, p. 1).

Reference list

Template

Author. (Year/Date). Article title. Newspaper/Magazine Name, p. #. DOI or URL

Example

Hunt, J. (1963, November 22). Assassin kills Kennedy. The Chicago Tribune,  1, 4–6.

Notes on style

  • Do NOT italicise the title of the article, only the title of the newspaper.
  • Include the year, month and day.
  • Do not add p. or pp. before the page number/s in the reference list.
  • Articles that are spread over several nonconsecutive pages can be expressed using commas and dashes, for example, 5-6, 8 or 1, 9-10, 12.
  • If the newspaper article has no author see instructions in the no author tab in this section.