Citing something that someone else has cited:This is known as 'secondary referencing'.
In this example you have seen Olsen's book. In it she quotes something by Wembley. Format - in-text citation Author of the quote (Year, cited in Author of resource you have seen, year, page no.) In-text citation: Include the author and year of both texts, and the page of the citation you are quoting from. Wembley (1997, cited in Olsen 1999, p. 156) argues that impending fuel shortages ... Reference List Only include a reference for the resource that you have actually seen, in this case Olsen. Olsen, M 1999, My career, Gallimard, Paris. |
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