Question

I am writing a paper in APA style. I want to quote a sentence from a journal that itself is a paraphrase of two other papers. I am wondering if I can just quote the paraphrase and just cite the paper I took it from or if I am required to cite the original sources and how to do that?

Answer 1

Don't quote ME on this, but I think it would be fine to quote and reference only the paraphrase, given that source itself references the original source(s). Of course, if you're nervous about that, just reference the original sources and paraphrase the content yourself.

Answer 2

Okay, I think your logic on the first option is good so I guess I'll go with that. I'd prefer not to paraphrase it again because it seems like coming up with an entirely new way to say it would be difficult. Thanks for the help!

Answer 3

That's a jagatuba question: he knows everything about APA style. Unfortunately, he's not online right now. But he's usually around quite a lot. He should be on sometime later today.

Answer 4

Here's the Purdue Online Writing Lab site for APA style:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

The sections of the guide are on the left. You'd need to know both how to list this reference (in the reference list) and how to cite it in text (what to put in the parens). The info here looks to be mostly basic though. I'm not seeing a situation like that you describe. It may be that it's addressed only in the full-on APA style guide, print version.

Answer 5

That's true, the in-text citation may well be the same as with any other journal article. But the listing in the works cited for that journal might need to be different?

Answer 6

Or if it's relevant to your own thinking in the paper, you may want to mention there that this article paraphrases two others.