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Referencing
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I need to reference a quote which I got from one book, but they got it from another book, so what do I write in the essay and also in the bibliography?
Is it just simply referencing the original book or the book i actually read? If that makes sense. I've searched on the uni website and it doesn't say anything about this.
Thank you very much
Is it just simply referencing the original book or the book i actually read? If that makes sense. I've searched on the uni website and it doesn't say anything about this.
Thank you very much
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I was told to put in the quote then in brackets after it who the quote is actually from followed by which book you got it from.
E.g.
A quote taken from 'Welfare, Happiness and Ethics' but quoted in the book to have been originally said by Bentham:
As proposed by Bentham (see L.W.Sumner Welfare, Happiness and Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996)
I'd write it as a footnote in the main body of text (to avoid having to use lots of brackets) and then just have the book you took it from in the references/bibliography.
Hope that helps
Are you at uni in the East Midlands? PM if you're at Notts!
Corr, another one. :eek:
Similar to what NK put: "As Aristotle wrote, "blah blah blah" (Doyle, 1994)"
Or "As Aristotle wrote, "blah blah blah[1]"
Footnote
[1] Doyle, "Ways of War and Peace", 1994, Penguin, London, p13
Lol, I think RepeatToFade's at Leicester...
Pretty close though...!
Yeah im at Leicester Uni...Nottingham Uni's too clever for me!
Lincolnshire's lovely too...!
And Nottingham's not that bad...