Indirect source (source quoted in another source) (MLA)
In-text citation
MLA-62
Public health researcher Dan Beauchamp has said that “public health practices are ‘communal in nature, and concerned with the well-being of the community as a whole and not just the well-being of any particular person’” (qtd. in Gostin and Gostin 217).
Explain
- When a writer’s or a speaker’s quoted words appear in a source written by someone else, begin the parenthetical citation with the abbreviation “qtd. in.”
- In the example, Gostin and Gostin are the authors of the source given in the works cited list; the source contains a quotation by Beauchamp.
Works cited entry
Gostin, L. O., and K. G. Gostin. “A Broader Liberty: J. S. Mill, Paternalism, and the Public’s Health.” Public Health, vol. 123, no. 3, 2009, pp. 214-21, doi:10.1016/