Whats an indirect citation?
You use an indirect citation when you’ve used a quote within a quote (see previous question) or even when your source paraphrases someone else. If you refer to the words of the secondary source, you use an indirect citation for your parenthetical citation. The indirect part means that you use qtd. in in your parenthetical citation. Using the example from the previous question, let’s suppose you read the following in an article by Alex Granada: Today’s boy bands are all style and no substance. The formula is this: find a group of handsome kids who can wear baggy clothes, rub their chests, look soulful, and manage a few harmonies and you have what Kelly Green calls “scream-inducing moneymakers.” If you quote only Green’s words: Some boy bands are, according to Kelly Green, “scream-inducing moneymakers” (qtd. in Granada 56). (qtd. in Granada 56) is the indirect citation. You need an indirect citation even if you paraphrase Green’s words: According to Kelly Green, some boy bands just make
