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Guide to Chicago/Turabian Style for Seminarians

This libguide was created to help students at Union Presbyterian Seminary learn how to format papers and properly cite sources in Chicago style, which is typically the style preferred in fields related to religious studies.

Citing a Source Within a Source

Sometimes you're reading a source for your research, and the author quotes or cites another source that is exactly the thing you need. What should you do? The best thing to do is track down the original source, if you can, and read the context in which the quote occurs, because sometimes the context can really affect the meaning of the quote!

Sometimes, though, you just can't find the original source. Here is how to cite a work within a work.

Let's say you read an article by Niditch, who cites a book by Speiser. You want to cite Speiser's words, but have not read Speiser's book itself.

Footnote:

7 E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB; Garden City: Doubleday, 1964), p. 300, quoted in Susan Niditch, "The Wronged Woman Righted: An Analysis of Genesis 38," The Harvard Theological Review 72/2 (Jan.-Apr. 1979): 143.

Bibliographic entry:

Speiser, E. A. Genesis. Anchor Bible series. Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Quoted in Susan Niditch, "The Wronged Woman Righted: An Analysis of Genesis 38," The Harvard Theological Review 72/2 (Jan.-Apr. 1979): 143-149.