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APA 7th Referencing

Sources referring to other sources (indirect citation)

A secondary source (indirect citation) is when the ideas of one author are published in another author’s text but you have not read or accessed the original author’s work.

  • Include both the original author and year and the author and year of the work where quote/idea was found in the in-text citation.
  • Add "as cited in" before the author in the in-text citation, e.g. (Harris, 2009, as cited in Lewis, 2019).
  • In the reference list, provide the details of the work in which you found the quotation or idea.

In-text citation

(Original author Family name, Year of original work, as cited in Author Family name of work where quote found, Year)

Miller (1953, as cited in Agrios, 2005) found … OR … as was found (Miller, 1953, as cited in Agrios, 2005)


Reference list

Agrios, G.N. (2005). Plant pathology (5th ed.). Elsevier Academic Press.