Citing third party quotes

From Phil Arena, e-tutor at Murdoch.

You NEVER cite the original article unless you have read it.

In other words, lets say I read a good quote by Smith (1720) in a book by Jones (2004).

I would write,

Many colonists believed that the land was "...free to be taken as it's doubtlful that these folks are civilised..." (Smith as cited in Jones, 2004, p.23).

or

This hypothesis was proven by Smith and Wesson (as cited in Jackson, 1998) In other words, use "as cited by" or "cited in" etc.

So... name the original work in the text and provide a bracketed citation for the secondary source.."

THEN...in your reference list, you only need to list the reference details of the source you actually used. In this case, you list the details of Jones (2004).