How do you cite a secondary source in Zotero?
Sometimes, one may wish to cite a secondary source. For example,
- British Foreign Office, FO371, FO Minute, 30 March 1943, A3068/4/2. Vol 22507, quoted in Bryce Wood, Dismantling the Good Neighbor Policy, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985), 18
- (Johnson, 1982, as cited in Smith, 2004)
In such cases, one should cite the source that was actually consulted for the citation (in the above examples, Wood [1985] and Smith [2004]). Enter the remaining content in the prefix field of the Zotero work processor plugin. For example,
- British Foreign Office, FO371, FO Minute, 30 March 1943, A3068/4/2. Vol 22507, quoted in
- Johnson, 1982, as cited in
This way, the original sources that were not consulted don't appear in the bibliography, which is generally regarded as good practice.