I have been reading a book (yes, honestly) and it has, in a box, some points that I would like to use as headings for a discussion in my methods section. I don't want to use the whole thing as not all the questions are relevant, but how do I reference this? It is their words I want to use, but not the whole box contents. For example they have a heading about validity of answers in e-mailed questionnaires, which I want to write about in the context of my research, but I don't want to put in the rest of their thoughts on the subject. do I just put something like 'some of the headings from Jones (2006) box6.1 p.346 were used to inform this section'?

I've got something similar in my methods chapter. I've put "Altheide and Johnson (2006) suggest the following criteria, which I have used to inform the discussion in this chapter: x, y, z..." (if that makes sense!) - but it was basically that I used some of their headings to structure my chapter. I did actually wonder if it was necessary as they are pretty generic things (access, researcher role, rapport etc) that you find in any methods textbook but I thought it better to reference than not.

thanks, that is what I thought, but it is one of those odd things - you don't want to get accused of using someone else's ideas do you! - but on the other hand, they are pretty general headings, better to be safe though.

I have a fancy way of dealing with this...

"And so, inspired by X and Y's typology of... "

or

"This below gets abc concepts together. In doing this, I'm inpired by Smith's ...."

BUT, I should add a caveat: my academic writing style is very simple/much like spoken words, and hence it might not go with other styles...

could you say something like "the framework for this discussin was adapted from Jones (2006)"...