I'm the adviser of a school newspaper that publishes exclusively online now. We have a page dedicated to revisiting the archives of our paper (60 years worth!). I cannot piece together how to properly cite in an article what has been quoted or paraphrased from the previously published article.
Do I cite the author and year? Article title in the credit? What is the correct way to handle this?
Print publications that are no longer in print are (were) still print publications. You would therefore cite them the same way you would any other newspaper article from a still-extant paper. (Citation format varies by style guide.) However, if you only accessed it via an intermediary, like a compilation (bound volume) or a digital archive, then you should also cite where you found it. One way to do that (again, your style guide might have opinions on this) would be:
Rosenberg, G. (1997, March 31). Electronic discovery proves an effective legal weapon. The New York Times, p. D5, as reproduced in __, The New York Times Compilation, Volume 103, p. 1952.
(This is an adaptation of APA style.)
You said "quoted or paraphrased". A paraphrase is a different work, so follow your style guide's rules for how to cite Source A adapting Source B. In my experience you would cite Source A there, because that's the source you used, and you might say in the body of your work (not as a citation) that this is a paraphrase of Source B.
A general rule for citations is: cite what you used, and never cite something you didn't see. In my last example, you never saw the original (Source B), so you cannot cite it. What if Source A was wrong in its claims about Source B?
