Attributing in text What Contaldo s saying is pretty simple You can t just attribute in text to authors that you disagree with or that you want to undermine as though it s just their personal opinion instead of a reliable source If you are emphatic about attributing in text I recommend that you demonstrate good faith by going through the article and also attributing the statements you re not trying to register your disagreement with I see plenty of statements in the History section for one instance that aren t attributed and the ones that are are attributed simply because they re primary sources which we really shouldn t be relying on anyway