Paraphrasing in English
Reference using as-clauses
One common pattern I often use in essay and papers is the pattern: 'as+author+reporting verb'. It can be used for in-text citation as well as paraphrasing.
As argued by Foer (2009): 'bycatch refers to sea creatures caught by accident - except not really by accident, since by-catch has been consciously built into contemporary fishing methods.'
As Foer put forward (2009), 'bycatch refers to sea creatures caught by accident - except not really by accident, since by-catch has been consciously built into contemporary fishing methods.'
as-clause references
By the way, you can use 'according to' in the same way.
According to Foer (2009), 'bycatch refers to sea creatures caught by accident - except not really by accident, since by-catch has been consciously built into contemporary fishing methods.'