Question

Imagine you have found an article by chen, burton, mihaela, and whittinghill. in that article, the authors cite a quote from hamari, koivisto, and sarsa. you decide to use this quote in your paper. this is an example of citing an indirect source. in other words, you are citing a source that is cited in another paper. which option would be the correct way to cite the source in apa format and to list the source on the references page in apa format?

Answer 1

The correct APA format should be is "Hamari, Koivisto, and Sarsa (as cited in Chen, Burton, Mihaela, & D.M. Whittinghill, 2015, p.39)"

In the reference list, you may list   Koivisto, Sarsa andHamari. In an APA format, should follow the author-date method, meaning the authors last name came first follow by the date of publication.