BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Interlaced Citation

[splice7]

Hi there,

I'm new to the forum, and I've tried using the search function and wading through various LaTeX resources, but I can't find the solution to my problem.

I'm preparing my thesis in LaTeX, and I use BiBTeX for the bibliography. \citet and \citep work well. But I need an "interlaced" (just came up with the term) citation of primary literature that is pointed out in secondary literature, something like this:
"A statement of a fact (Burgess and Jones (1988) cited in James and Woody (2002))."

I've failed to find this anywhere in TeX manuals or Google - but maybe I didn't know the correct search terms. Please help me: is there a way to do this with BiBTeX?

And if there is, is there a way to change the "cited in" part (I'm not writing in English) to something else?

(Sorry for not providing a minimal working example but I just thought that packages and other code didn't have much relevance here. I apologize if this is a wrong post.)

[localghost]

You don't really need a nested citation. Just create two entries in your BibTeX database and do normal citations in your document.

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A statement of a fact (\cite{BurgessJones:1988} cited in \cite{JamesWoody:2002}).

It goes without saying that this is only an example where you have to insert the actual citation keys from your BibTeX database and use the citation commands that you need.

But from my point of view it would suffice if you cite the original work (here: Burgess and Jones (1988)) because this is your primary source. It doesn't really matter where this source is cited else.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[splice7]

Yeah, I thought that I'd just cite one after the other in a parenthesis, but I would've liked to know if there was a way... I know it's not the usual way, but I need to use kind of "embedded" citation a few places in my thesis - I'll not bore you with the details Thanks for the reply!

ps. This can be marked solved I guess.