I have some questions regarding secondary citations (in an computer-science research paper that should be published in a journal). I know that they should be avoided when possible, but it is not always that easy. More specifically, my situation is this:
Article A says:
The average value of ... in ... is ... [B]. [C]’s study says that in ... the value is ...
This statement is exactly what i need for my paper. If I read [B] and [C], I see that [A] cited them correctly and if I would have found these two other articles myself, I would have written the same.
Now how to cite this in a correct way?
[B] and [C] say (cited in [A]) ...
and do a “bad” secondary quote;
[B] and [C] say ...
and neglect the investigation done by [A] and peform citation plagiarism;
[A] says ...
and neglect that the data was the achievement of [B] and [C].
[A] says based on the findings of [B] and [C] ...
and do a secondary quote again.