I have a question about the references mentioning methodology please:
If I read a book of a theorist , and find that he uses parts of other theorists, and mentions them in his references bibliography, and want to use the extracted part from another book in my research; how should I academically behave: I would have not discovered the mentioned reference that I find myself interested to use, if I have not read the book on which I found it used to...
So should I mention both of them or only the book in which I found an extracted part from another book that I find myself interested to use
I ask sorry for the length of my question, waiting kindly for your answers and advices.
Thank you so much in advance
FRR
The best approach is to look at the original source which was cited and then to cite both it and the one where you found it. You do not have to say anything about the process of how you found your sources.
If, however, you do not or cannot look at the original source, then you should include it in your references and say "as cited in..." and give a further reference to where you found the information.
The best approach is to look at the original source which was cited and then to cite both it and the one where you found it. You do not have to say anything about the process of how you found your sources.
If, however, you do not or cannot look at the original source, then you should include it in your references and say "as cited in..." and give a further reference to where you found the information.
In addition to Prof Morgan answer, you can also write as “in his work xyz (year) referred to abc (year) and said...........”
Its bit confusing for me and I also seek bit explanation....
Why are we actually citing the article (R) where we found the actual Citation (A). Is it because we found the actual work (A) in that paper (B)...
Does it not depend on what I am writing. If R did not experiment / hypothesize it and just giving information about Actual Work A, will it not create confusion if I am citing now both R and A. And what about tens of others papers who also cited work of A?
Thank You
As Prof Morgan already have mentioned that the best approach is to check the original source and then cite it, accordingly. However, in some cases, people do not have access to particular document and cannot go through it. As an alternative, you can refer to available document and cite it as per above discussion.
I also agree with Prof. Morgan. Usually, I will try and find the original sources of those materials if they are available. I will then cite the first extract and the other sources I discovered through the other sources. If not you will have to cite them as secondary citations.
I will behave this way
(source x has studied and gave theory in his book A (yyyy))
(source z has used book A in his references list while writing his book B(yyyy)')
(i found source x book A(yyyy) while reading source z book B(yyyy)')
=>1-in my references list I will mention source x book A(yyyy)
2-in the page of my work (phd /article) where i mention the source x book A(yyyy), I put a footnote saying so: in his book B (yyyy)', z referred to (x,yyyy) and said...........”
thank all for your collaboration ^_^
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