Quick Help: Guidelines for quotation notes

Quick Help: Guidelines for quotation notes

Guidelines for quotation notes

  • Copy quotations carefully, with punctuation, capitalization, and spelling exactly as in the original.
  • Use quotation marks; don’t rely on your memory to distinguish your own words from those of the source. Identify the note as a quotation.
  • Use square brackets if you introduce words of your own into a quotation or make changes in it, and use ellipses if you omit material. If you later incorporate the quotation into your essay, copy it faithfully—brackets, ellipses, and all. (13b)
  • If the quotation appears on more than one page of a print source, use a slash ( / ) to indicate where one page ends and another begins.