Only cite secondary sources when you are unable to obtain the original. When you are quoting or paraphrasing information by someone who was quoted in a secondary source, and you have not read the original, you should cite the original source either as a footnote/endnote, or within the text, and then cite the secondary source in the reference list. You should attempt to find and read the original work, if possible.
Format:
Original Article cited in a Text (Footnote or Endnote):
1Author, "Article Title," Journal Title Volume # (Date): Page,
quoted in Author, Title (Place of Publication: Publisher, Date), Page.
Original Book cited in a Text (Footnote or Endnote):
1Author, Book Title, Place of Publication: Publisher, Date, Page,
quoted in Author, Title (Place of Publication: Publisher, Date), Page.
Citing Original Work within the text of your paper and Citing Secondary Text in Reference List:
Citing in Text:
...as noted in Author's "Article Title," from the Date issue of Journal Title (quoted in Author Date)...
Entry in Reference List:
Author. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, Date.
Examples:
Original Article cited in a Text (Footnote or Endnote):
1Dowden, Edward, "Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda," Contemporary
Review 29 (1877) 348-69, quoted in Fleishman, Avrom, George Eliot's
Intellectual Life (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 193.
Citing Original Work within the text of your paper and Citing Secondary Text in Reference List:
1Wolff, Michael, Marian Evans to George Eliot: The Moral and Intellectual
Foundations of Her Career, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1958, 28,
quoted in Fleishman, Avrom, George Eliot's Intellectual Life (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2010), 64.
Citing Original Work within the text of your paper and Citing Secondary Text in Reference List:
Citing in Text:
...as noted in Wolff's unpublished dissertation, Marian Evans to George
Eliot: The Moral and Intellectual Foundations of Her Career (quoted in
Fleishman 2010)...
Entry in Reference List:
Fleishman, Avrom. George Eliot's Intellectual Life. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2010.