In-text referencing when paraphrasing from a newspaper article with an author.

There are two options for in-text referencing:

  1. Adding a citation at the end of a sentence.
  2. Using the author's name as part of your sentence.

Essential information to include:

  • The family name of the author.
  • No initials are required.
  • The year of publication.

The following sentences have been taken from:

Hall, J 2007, ‘Qantas looks for outsider as Strong withdraws, Financial Review, 2 August, pp. 1 & 21.

(a) Hall (2007) stated that the Qantas charter does not currently allow for past or current CEOs to take on the position of chairman of the Qantas Board.

or

(b) The Qantas charter does not currently allow for past or current CEOs to take on the position of chairman of the Qantas Board (Hall 2007).

Note:

  • Do not use page numbers or quotation marks when paraphrasing.
  • The full stop is placed after the bracket when the citation is at the end of the sentence. (See - Example b).
  • The name of the newspaper is NOT included in-text, but is included in the Reference List
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In-text referencing when paraphrasing a sentence or paragraph from a newspaper article with an author.

The following sentence has been taken from:
Hall, J 2007, ‘Qantas looks for outsider as Strong withdraws, Financial Review, 2 August, pp. 1 & 21.

Choose the correct citation from the box below for each of the examples given.