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One source quoted in another

Footnotes

Original Author, Title of original book (Place of Publication: Publisher, year) cited in Secondary Book Author, Title of Secondary source (Place of Publication: Publisher, year), page extent.

Norman Klein, The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory (London: Verso, 1997) cited in Allan Cameron, Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema (Basingstoke, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 83.

Bibliography

Secondary Book Author, Title of Secondary source (Place of Publication: Publisher, year).

Cameron, Allan, Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema (Basingstoke, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Notes
  • The original and secondary source should be cited in the footnote.
  • In the bibliography, only list the secondary source. Do not list original sources that you did not read.
  • This is where the work of one author is cited in another author’s work. In the example above, Norman Klein is the author of an original source and Allan Cameron is citing him in his own book, making Allan Cameron’s book the secondary source E.g.:
    • As the cultural critic Norman Klein stated in 1997, “the Romantics gloried in the ruins of memory”…
    • See Footnote example above – Norman Klein is cited as the author of the quote with the title and publishing details of his book, followed by the details of the book where the quote was found.
    • The publishing details of Norman Klein’s book were found in the bibliography of Allan Cameron’s book
    • See the Bibliography example above – Norman Klein is not cited here, just the author of the book which has the Norman Klein quote.