Where should the original author’s name appear when citing indirect sources?

When citing indirect sources, the name of the author of the original quotation can appear in the prose, in the in-text citation, or in an endnote. Here are examples of each option:

According to Alexander Pope, “A little learning is a dang’rous thing” (qtd. in Damrosch 239).

As a wise poet once wrote, “A little learning is a dang’rous thing” (Alexander Pope qtd. in Damrosch 239).

As a wise poet once wrote, “A little learning is a dang’rous thing.”¹

Note

1. Alexander Pope qtd. in Damrosch 239.

Work Cited

Damrosch, Leopold, Jr. The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope. U of California P, 1987.