Expanded Reference Guide
Completion requirements
Fuller guide to referencing in SED (e.g. film, online and electronic sources), including examples of how to present quotations, footnotes (and how to limit footnotes) and bibliographies in your essays.
4. Footnotes
4.6. Newspapers
References to articles in newspapers require only the date of issue (day, month, year), the relevant section, and the page numbers.
- Jonathan Friedland, ‘Across the Divide’, Guardian, 15 January 2002, section G2, pp. 10-11.
- Michael Schmidt, ‘Tragedy of Three Star-Crossed Lovers’, Daily Telegraph, 1 February 1990, p. 14.
- Charlie Brooker, 'I Hate Macs', Guardian, 5 February 2007, G2 section, p. 11.
Note:
- When giving the titles of English-language newspapers or magazines, you should omit an initial The or A, as in all the examples above. The exception to this is The Times which keeps its The.
