[Tex/LaTex] How to cite a paper I didn’t read

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The problem I have is that a paper that is cited by other papers I've read is not to be found. I've read only its abstract. I understand that what I want should look like

Featherstone et al 1900 (as cited in Thomas and Cullen 2002)

but I have no idea how to do it in LaTeX or BibTeX for that matter. I have no idea how to Google it either. I hope there's a way to do it.

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Using biblatex, the solution would be similar. In in-text citation could be \textcite{featherstone1900} (assuming that's the .bib entry) and the parenthetical reference could be \parencite[as cited in][]{thomas-cullen2002} (again assuming that's the .bib entry).

Note, however, that biblatex offers a lot more in the way of citation commands, including especially \autocite and \smartcite, which are really clever at doing things 'right' given the citation style you have specified. If that's not enough, there are several dozen(!) variations of \*cite* commands. No other package matches this level of flexibility for bibliographies and citations.

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Most probably you have \nocite{*} somewhere in the body of your document; this command will cause all entries of the chosen bibliographical database to be included in the list of references.

Simply delete \nocite{*} and re-compile your document (using, for example, pdflatex+bibtex+pdflatex+pdflatex).

The \nocite command can also be used with a key-list as its argument; in this case, it will write the bibliographical information associated to the key-list (even if the publication(s) is(are) otherwise not cited) into the list of references.

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For the sake of argument, I'll assume that there are entries with keys Ker:2005 and Fow:1999 in your .bib file which point to the pieces by Kerievsky and Fowler, respectively. Assuming you use the natbib citation management package, you could proceed as follows.

Load the natbib package with the options square (to produce square brackets around the parenthetical citations) and numbers (to produce numeric-style citations).

Use a combination of \citep and \citealp to create the desired citation:

Refactoring is "..." \citep[][cited by \citealp{Ker:2005}]{Fow:1999}.

If this syntax looks like it's going to be a bit hard to remember, you might want to define a macro named \citeprimsec in the preamble:

\newcommand{\citeprimsec}[2]{\citep[][cited by \citealp{#2}]{#1}}

and employ it in the body of the document as

Refactoring is "..." \citeprimsec{Fow:1999}{Ker:2005}.

The name of the macro will hopefully make it more or less obvious that the first argument should be the key of the primary reference and that its second argument should be the key of the secondary reference.

Addendum: I just noticed that your comment that you do not use natbib. Well, adding natbib to the list of packages you load in the preamble shouldn't be a big deal. Just be sure to load it with the options square and numbers. You needn't modify any of your existing \cite commands.

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