MLA Referencing

[battlescarves]

Hi,

I can't seem to find a straight answer to this online (I've looked through the pinned citations thread), so I thought I'd ask here. If I'm trying to reference a document I downloaded from an online database (in this case, the Freedom of Information Act - http://foia.state.gov/) how would I do that? There's no link that leads directly to the document since you have to search using a specific keyword and when you click it downloads directly without giving a link to the specific document.

Could I write the name of the document and the simply supply the link foia.state.gov as the source?

Also, if I'm citing a (scanned) document already in one of my secondary sources do I need to write each document in my bibliography as well?

And last question: If I reference a reference in one of my secondary sources (i.e. a quote from another source) does the work that was quoted have to be in my bibliography? I've added this as a footnote

Gilman, Mandarins of the Future, 110. Cited in Qureshi, Nixon, Kissinger and Allende, U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile, 30

So it's clear that it comes from one of my sources, but do I still need to add it to my bibliography as an independent source?

Thanks!

[under-cover]

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

this should help you