How to cite secondary sources in APA style?

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Hello everyone,

for my thesis I need to cite a few sources I don’t have the original for; thus, I can just cite the secondary source I actually read. APA suggests citing secondary sources in text like this:

(Rabbitt, 1982, as cited in Lyon et al., 2014)

The primary source is not part of my bibliography file because I didn’t read it.
A combination of different citation styles

(Rabbitt, 1982; as cited in #cite(<Lyon_2014>, form: "author"), #cite(<Lyon_2014>, form: "year"))

works partially but fails when I cite multiple works from the same author and year when
Lyon et al., 2014a and Lyon et al., 2014b are needed.

Is there another way or a workaround for this problem?

Kind regards

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Hi, welcome to the forum!
(I had noticed your question quite a while ago, but I didn’t understand your problem at that time, so I didn’t reply. I didn’t expect that no one else had replied by now…)

It seems that the problem lies in the following facts.

  1. If we use regular @cites, then there will be redundant parentheses.
  2. If we use #cite(…, form: "year"), then both 2014a and 2014b become 2014.

I think circumventing 1 is more practical, that is, show "(": none.

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#let secondary(body) = {
  [as cited in ]
  show "(": none
  show ")": none
  body
}

(Rabbitt, 1982; #secondary[@Lyon_2014a @Lyon_2014b])

#bibliography(
  bytes(
    ```bib
    @article{Lyon_2014a,
      date = {2014},
      author = {Lyon and Lyon and Lyon},
      Title = {Work A},
    }
    @article{Lyon_2014b,
      date = {2014},
      author = {Lyon and Lyon and Lyon},
      Title = {Work B},
    }
    ```.text,
  ),
  style: "apa",
)
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