reply to your message about style issues and footnotes references hi just so you know template cite news is the preferred way to cite news sources using the template allows us to easily modify references and easily keep all references in the same format when editing a reference please do not remove template cite news as you did here also there's no need to name references unless they're used more than once thank you my way of including all references in an article is according to what i've found here and here that's close to the apa style we are talking about footnotes that are references citations to sources right was not aware that a specific way to cite only the news although it's a reference like any other printed source also the reference was used twice with the long version added at the first footnote for example such as this reference and the shortened version used for subsequent mentions of the same citation for example such as in this case if it matters that much for the sake of style and consistency go ahead and change the format to one for news articles let me know if you have more questions talk'