If you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only need to include reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text citation. Although it is not required, APA guidelines encourage you to also provide the page number.

In the following example, the author summarized an article with an unknown author [The Wall Street Journal. (1994, January 10). Investors Have a New Tool for Judging Issuers’ Health: Cash-Flow Adequacy.] and cited the original source directly within the text. In a case like this where no author is listed, include an abbreviated article title/website title in quotation marks, or book title in italics. In general, when you are missing a key piece of information, you’ll need to include another detail that will allow the reader to identify the source.

If you are unsure whether your paraphrasing of another author’s writing meets Cognella’s publication criteria, please ask your project editor for our toolkit on paraphrasing successfully.