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APA 7th Edition Citation Examples

Citing a Source within a Source

Scenario: You read a 2007 article by Linhares and Brum that cites an earlier article, by Klein. You want to cite Klein's article, but you have not read Klein's article itself.

Reference list citation

Linhares, A., & Brum, P. (2007). Understanding our understanding of strategic scenarios: What role do chunks play? Cognitive Science, 31(6), 989-1007. https://doi.org/10.1080/03640210701703725

Your Reference list will contain the article you read, by Linhares and Brum. Your Reference list will NOT contain a citation for Klein's article.

In-text citation

. . . is a characteristic of decision-making (Klein, 1998, as cited in Linhares & Brum, 2007).

Your in-text citation gives credit to Klein and shows the source in which you found Klein's ideas.

Please note: because the year of Klein's article is listed in the article we read, by Linares and Brum, we give the year of Klein's article in our in-text citation.

If the year of Klein's article were not clearly listed in Linares and Brum, then we would simply leave the year out of the in-text citation, like this:

. . . is a characteristic of decision-making (Klein, as cited in Linhares & Brum, 2007).

More info

See Publication Manual, p. 258.