MLA Books and eBooks
Whenever you can, take material from the original and not a secondhand source. But, if you quote an author's quotation of a source you did not personally consult, put the abbreviation "qtd. in" (for quoted in) before the indirect source you cite in your parenthetical citation.
Quoted in text
Samuel Johnson admitted that Edmund Burke was an "extraordinary man" (qtd. in Boswell 289).
Works Cited
Boswell, James. Boswell's Life of Johnson. Edited by Augustine Birrell, vol. 3, Times Book Club, 1912.
