How to Put in Text Citations for Newspaper Articles
- 1). Write the author's last name and the year of publication in brackets to cite a newspaper article within the body of an essay in APA or Harvard referencing style. Include the surname and the year alone if you have paraphrased from an entire article. You can write the author's surname within the text and the year of publication in brackets if you wish. For example, you could write "Thompson (1989) argues that..." or "Some commentators have refuted this claim (Thompson, 1989)" within the text of your essay.
- 2). Include the page number of the information if you have taken a specific quote or specific portion of the newspaper article. This is for APA or Harvard style, and has to be written in addition to the surname of the author and year of publication. Write a semi-colon between the year of publication and the page reference. For example, you can write "Green (2009: 45) reports that..." or "This concern has been echoed in the news (Green, 2009: 45)" for your in-text citation.
- 3). Write the title of the article, the year of publication and page number in brackets and include the newspaper's name in the essay if there is no author listed. Put the title of the article in quotation marks. Generally, newspaper reports will list an author, but in the event it does not, this is suitable for APA or Harvard format. For example, write "The Observer reported that... ('Walking the Line,' 2005: 67)" for your in-text citation.
- 4). Include the author's surname and page number if you are referencing in MLA format. In the same way as with APA or Harvard format referencing, the page number has to be in parentheses, but you can add the surname either in or out of parentheses. Include the specific page for any quotes and the pages the article takes up within the newspaper for references to the whole article. Add the name of the article if the author's name is not provided.
