Recently I've had a few enquiries about Secondary Referencing. This is when you want to reference something that the book or journal article you're reading has referenced but you haven't read the original source.
You can find out more about secondary referencing in our online Referencing Guide. However, Secondary Referencing is not something that is encouraged.
It's considered bad academic practice to habitually use secondary referencing and whenever possible you should use the original source of the information. Of course, sometimes it will be impossible to get hold of the original source (e.g. because it's out of print) and in this case it's acceptable to use a secondary reference.
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