MEpedia:News article formatting

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How to add news articles with correct citation and formatting for the page List of news articles on ME and CFS.

'''ARTICLE TITLE in bold'''{{citation goes here}}

''NEWSPAPER NAME (and section if inc.) in italics'' By: AUTHOR NAME (if inc.). (DD-MMM-YYYY)

If article is paywalled, state here and link to ME Association copy if available.

"Blurb."
EXAMPLE
Patients, Scientists Fight Over Research-Data Access[1]
The Wall Street Journal By: Amy Dockser Marcus. (07 Mar 2016)
Paywalled. [LINK Reprint available via The ME Association]
"A controversy surrounding a study of chronic fatigue syndrome is prompting some scientists to push back against demands that they make medical research data more widely available to other researchers and patients."


Citations

There are 3 citation options:

  • Standard article
  • Article without listed author
  • Paywalled or archived article with alternative link available
Standard
{{citation  | last =  | first =  | date =  |title= |url= |newspaper= |location= |access-date= }}
Article without listed author
{{citation |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= |url= |newspaper= |location= | date =  |access-date= }}
Paywalled/archived article
{{citation  | last =  | first =  | date =  |title= |url= |archive-url= |archive-date= |newspaper= |location= |access-date= }}

NOTE: Place the paywalled article in |url= and the free version in |archive-url= 

NOTE:

  • |date= Should be written out in full, e.g. 2 November 2016.
  • |location= Location of newspaper should only be added if not indicated in the newspaper name. E.g. San Francisco Chronicle does not need location added, but The Saturday Paper does (Melbourne). A list of newspapers and locations are available in the table below for easy referencing – please add to it if a paper is missing.
  • |access-date= This should be left empty. It is there for future use when referencing the article elsewhere on MEpedia.
Newspaper name Location
The Atlantic Washington, D.C.
BBC News London
BreakingNews.ie Cork
Business Insider New York
The Canary Bristol, UK
Chemical & Engineering News Washington, D.C.
Clinical Pain Advisor New York
Courier-Post Cherry Hill, NJ
CTV News Toronto
The Daily Express London
Daily Mail London
The Dominion Post Wellington
The Economist London
EurekAlert! Washington, D.C.
Garnet News New York
The Guardian London
HealthInsightUK London
Healthy Magazine Alpine, UT
The Hill Washington, D.C.
The Huffington Post New York
The Huffington Post UK London
iNews London
Irish Independent Dublin
The Irish News Belfast
ITV News London
Live Science New York
Medical Daily New York
MedPage Today New York
Medscape New York
Neuroscience News Houston
New Scientist London
New Statesman London
The New Zealand Herald Auckland
O, The Oprah Magazine New York
Pacific Standard Santa Barbara
The Press Democrat Santa Rosa
The Print (Queen Mary Students' Union) London
Private Eye London
Psychiatry Advisor New York
The Saturday Paper Melbourne
SBS Sydney
ScienceAlert Canberra
Science Daily Rockville, MD
Science magazine Washington, D.C.
The Scotsman Edinburgh
Slate New York
The Spectrum McLean, VA
STAT Boston
The Telegraph London
The Telegraph Macon
The Times London
Undark Cambridge, MA
USA Today McLean, VA
U.S. News & World Report Washington, D.C.
The Wall Street Journal New York
WBUR Boston
What Doctors Don't Tell You London

References

  1. Example citation