"Best way to quote a quote" Topic
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| Korvessa | 03 Oct 2025 1:56 p.m. PST |
Suppose I am working on a scenario booklet.
I come across a passage I like in a book I have that is quoting another source and is foot-noted.
So for referecnce: Book A is quoting source B What is the best way to quote that (assuming I don't have access to the original)? 1) Just quote book A
2) Quote is a Source B
3) quote it as Source B as quoted by book A |
| MajorB | 03 Oct 2025 2:18 p.m. PST |
Quote the original source. (Source B in your example) |
| John Armatys | 03 Oct 2025 2:22 p.m. PST |
In my view 3) – it makes clear what source you've used and prevents problems if Book A is misquoting Source B (which nearly happened to me with a line quoted from a film found on the internet. When I tracked down a clip on YouTube the sentence was different). To reference it as 2) is misleading because you haven't seen Source B. |
 Dal Gavan  | 03 Oct 2025 2:26 p.m. PST |
I agree with John A, mate- use 3) and give credit to both sources, along the lines of "See Spot Run, A Author; as quoted in I saw Spot Run, B Author, Publisher & company, Black Stump 1911, pages 311 to 400.". PS I deleted the superfluous, pre-caffeine waffle I'd written at the start. |
| Frederick | 03 Oct 2025 6:06 p.m. PST |
I would for sure quote the original (academic perspective) but if the second source adds to the quotation or interpretation quote as well in context |
| robert piepenbrink | 03 Oct 2025 6:40 p.m. PST |
I think Dal has this right. It's how I was trained as a historian, and it would be about the same as an Intel analyst. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 03 Oct 2025 7:33 p.m. PST |
I'm with John Amatys, Dal Gavan, and Robert Piepenbrink. I would not quote from the original source unless I had read it and understood the context of the quote. So I'd end up with something like this: "This is an awesome line to quote." A. Author, Great Wargaming Stuff, p. 100 (1999) (quoting B. Better, Epistomology of Military History, p. 255 (1888). or "This is an awesome line to quote." B. Better, Epistomology of Military History, p. 255 (1888), quoted in A. Author, Great Wargaming Stuff, p. 100 (1999). I assume that the footnote has only the citation, not the actual quotation. I have not broken out the APA Publication Manual, which is the de facto manual of style for American academic works regardless of field (except the legal field, where the Harvard Blue Book dominates citation form). |
 Parzival | 05 Oct 2025 3:10 p.m. PST |
If you actually know the original source, quote that.
Otherwise 3. |
| dapeters | 06 Oct 2025 1:11 p.m. PST |
MLA – sorry could not help myself |
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