How to quote a quote from a book?
Right, so, I am writing an essay on the Battle of Hong Kong. I'm trying to cite something from this book called 'The Damned' by Nathan Greenfield. However, what I am trying to cite is in fact a quote from a famous person. The quote itself is not famous, but it was spoken by Winston Churchill.
I know that I put the information source in the bibliography as the book. Would I, after writing the quote, put [Churchill], or would I put [Greenfield, 9]
Comments
The Modern Language Association (MLA) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. Using the most recent MLA guidelines ("MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers" (7th ed.) and "MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing" (3rd ed.)), you are dealing with what MLA regards to be the use of an INDIRECT SOURCE.
CAVEAT:
BEFORE turning to the appropriate citation for an INDIRECT SOURCE, IF you are able to find and to read the direct quote by Winston Churchill from HIS writings that is PREFERABLE to using an indirect source. Thus, if you are able to read the ORIGINAL SOURCE, you would treat the citation just as you would treat any other direct quote from an original source.
ANSWER:
YOUR IN-TEXT, PARENTHETICAL CITATION:
IF you are unable or unwilling to locate and to read the original source, you must use as your SOURCE the work from which you are taking the quote. FOR SUCH INDIRECT SOURCES, in your parenthetical, in-text citation you would use "qtd. in" (without the quotation marks) to indicate the source that you actually consulted.
In your example, let us assume that the quote by Winston Churchill appears on p. 9 of your indirect source (i.e., "The Damned" by Nathan Green). You would use a signal phrase in your text to indicate that the quote is attributed to Winston Churchill. Following the quoted words, your citation would read: (qtd. in Greenfield 9).
For verification and formatted examples, please see:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/2/ [See "Citing indirect sources."]
http://rdc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=51106&sid...
YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRY:
Your bibliographic entry would list the INDIRECT SOURCE. Thus, Greenfield would be included alphabetically in your list, NOT Churchill. You would treat Greenfield's book just as you would any other book in print in your bibliography.
For verification and formatted examples, please see:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06... [See: "MLA Works Cited Page: Books."]
http://libguides.mbc.edu/content.php?pid=173362&si...
http://rdc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=51106&sid...
Good luck with your essay.
just quote the quote thats allready been quoted