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Referencing style - Chicago: Citations Taken From Secondary Sources

A guide to using the Chicago 17th referencing style for footnotes and reference lists.

Citations Taken From Secondary Sources

Citing a secondary source is generally discouraged, since authors are expected to have examined the works they cite.

If an original source is unavailable both the original and the secondary source, record the secondary source as part of the narrative, and record 'quoted' in the in-text citation. Only the original should appear in the bibliography.

In-text citation Bibliography example

In Louis Zukofsky's "Sincerity and Objectification," from the February 1931 issue of Poetry magazine (quoted Costello 1981) ...

 Costelllo, Bonnie. 1981. Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

 

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