Bibliography Styles Handbook
MLA Format:
Citing footnotes or endnotes in a bibliography entry
When citing a footnote or endnote, you may use information from a secondary source, but
you must put parentheses after you mention this information in your paper, and give credit
to the work where you found it. For example, James Smith claims that Joe Smith was an
"average scientist with extraordinary ambition" (qtd. in Harris 2: 450). After
"qtd. in", give the last name of the author of the work in which you found the
information, followed by the volume/edition number, a colon, and the page number. If there
is no volume/edition number, then just put the page number.Your bibliographic entry will
only contain a citation for the work that you actually read - the work where you found
your information. The bibliographic entry that would follow the above example would be as
follows:
Harris, James. Scientists of Our Century. New York: Bantam, 1992.
Do not list the indirect source (the text listed in the endnote or footnote) in your
bibliography. Only mention the actual source in which you found the information.