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Referencing a book with references

  • 15-01-2012 04:23PM
    #1
    theyearof2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭


    I am just wondering what to do in this situation with regard to a college assignment I am doing.

    What if the information you are taking from a book is referenced to another book... do you bypass the book you are reading and use their reference? Then simply put the book you were reading into the bibliography?

    Its just the reference that the book uses if obviously a book I wouldn't have read for such an essay.

    What's the best procedure here?


Comments

  • #2
    Whistlejacket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Whistlejacket


    You always reference the work that you actually read.


  • #3
    dambarude
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 2,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭dambarude


    You're meant to use the 'cited in' reference.

    So if you're reading Kenny, 2011, and he references Gilmore, 2009, you'd write

    "Gilmore (2009, cited in Kenny, 2011) claims that Labour is great".

    You'd then put Kenny (2011) in your reference list/bibliography, not Gilmore (2009).


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