Daniel
My understanding is that she should reference the item she has actually used. If she has used the secondary source and not the primary source then she should reference the secondary source. This also applies to academic work, as far as I know.
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Sent: 08 August 2019 11:37
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Subject: Primary or secondary referencing?
Hi
A clinician at our hospital trust is updating a best practice document for her medical staff. She is citing an internationally recognised consensus report. A number of tables and charts come from this consensus report, but are themselves taken from primary sources. The clinician wants to know if she needs to reference each primary source cited in the secondary (consensus) document, of if it is permissible to secondary reference the consensus document instead.
My initial advice was that secondary referencing (Smith and Jones, cited in Consensus document 2019 px) would be sufficient given that the audience for the guidance is clinical rather than academic in nature, but I did say that I would speak to colleagues to make sure I was providing the very best advice. May I please for ask your views on this?
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