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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: E. Secondary Sources

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For each type of source in this guide, the general form and specific examples will be provided for both the Notes-Bibliography and the Author-Date style options of Turabian.

This information and several of the examples were drawn from A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (9th edition). Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

For further information, please ask your instructor or refer to the Turabian manual.

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Secondary Sources

Good practice in research is to only use quotations from sources that you have viewed in the original from so that you can verify their accuracy. However, when the original source is unavailable (i.e. unpublished manuscript), researchers may need to include the quotation as it is found in a secondary source. This is done by using the terms "quoted in" and then listing the secondary source information in the citation (pp. 205-6; 272-3).
 

Notes-Bibliography Style (p. 205-6):

General Format

Note:
Note Number. Proper notes citation for original source, quoted in proper notes citation for secondary source.
 
     
Bibliographic Entry:
Proper notes citation for original source. Quoted in First Name/Initial of Author Last Name followed by remainder of proper notes citation for secondary source.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Author-Date Style (p. 272-3):

General Format

Parenthetical Citation:
(Original Author Last Name Year, XX-XX)
 
 
Reference List Entry:
Proper Reference list entry for original source. Quoted in First Name/Initial of Author Last Name followed by remainder of proper reference list entry citation for secondary source.

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