Quotation Problem

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Hi, sorry to bother you all with this kind of question.

Currently working my way through a 6k report, in regards to quoting source and ive come across a problem.

For instance (only an example)

Im reading book 12345, by Dave.

In Dave's book he quotes somebody else, now if i wish to use this quote aswell, do i need to reference daves book or find the original quote in the book of the guy hes quoting and dig out the page number etc and go from there?

Thanks in advance.
 
It depends on which style guide you're following how you would reference it, but I would always footnote it, "X, quoted in Dave, 12345....".

This is if it is a direct quotation of another source. If its merely using their argument or ideas but not a word for word citation then this shouldn't be necessary, but you may want to mention it in footnotes.

Ive found book its supposedly in, however the author of this book stipulates pg 68-75. So he must have referenced a few pieces of his work so looks like im stuck.

You would need to find the original quote and reference it properly, I believe. I know it's an absolute pain, but I'm pretty sure that's the proper way to do it to avoid issues of plagiarism.

What about if ive no access to the works? Universities cant expect us to have access to every text surely?
 
Hes a marketer thats all I know about him.

Surely i cant reference it like this, is there a way to reference the whole part >?

1. blah blah (whoever, 2008)
2. blah blah (whoever, 2008)
3.blah blah (whoever, 2008)
 
One last one, now this one has really got me stumped, im working from a journal ive found, however the journal has multiple sections from differing authors, if one of the authors paraphrases a section of one of the latter authors how would i go about referencing that?
 
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