[Framers] OT: Reference question

[Peter Gold]

Just cite the "Friends" episode and provide a link to it? :)


On Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:16 PM <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:

> OK, I know this is off-topic but because this list is filled with seasoned
> veterans of technical writing, I know I can get my answer here. I am
> working
> on the references for a client document, and have to sort through the
> existing references that I was given and make sure it is accurate, current,
> etc., and I came across a couple of instances of a reference within a
> reference such as:
>
>
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> Rodgers, T., Leahy, D., et al. (2005). "Physiologically based
> pharmacokinetic modeling 1: predicting the tissue distribution of
> moderate-to-strong bases." J Pharm Sci 94(6): 1259-76.
>
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> Rodgers, T., Leahy, D., et al. (2007). "Rodgers T, Leahy D, Rowland M.
> 2005.
> Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling 1: Predicting the tissue
> distribution of moderate-to-strong bases. J Pharm Sci 94:1259-1276." J
> Pharm
> Sci 96(11): 3151-3152.
>
>
>
> You can see that the first reference is embedded/cited in the second
> reference. This was not the way that I was taught a gazillion years ago to
> cite an embedded reference. Basically, if the content of the embedded
> reference was standalone in a new reference, regardless of the source, then
> the new reference was all that was cited, for example:
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>
>
> Rodgers, T., Leahy, D., et al. (2007). Physiologically based
> pharmacokinetic
> modeling 1: Predicting the tissue distribution of moderate-to-strong bases.
> J Pharm Sci 96(11): 3151-3152.
>
>
>
> I looked at these papers and the content was standalone in the second
> reference and it cited the first reference for the content, but because the
> content was standalone in the second reference, I should cite only the
> second reference where appropriate. (God, does that even make sense. . . I
> am thinking of the Friends episode, "The One Where Everybody Finds Out,"
> and
> they don't know that we know that they know and Joey loses his mind.)
>
>
>
> I just need some advice from some seasoned writers about how to handle
> this.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
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