Copy quotations carefully, with punctuation, capitalization, and spelling exactly as in the original.
Enclose the quotation in quotation marks; don’t rely on your memory to distinguish your own words from those of the source.
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. (40b)
Record the author’s name, the shortened title, and the page number(s) on which the quotation appears in the source. If the note refers to more than one page, use a slash ( / ) within the quotation to indicate where one page ends and another begins. For sources without page numbers, record the paragraph or other section number(s), if any.
Make sure you have a corresponding working-bibliography entry with complete source information. (14b)
Label the note with a subject heading, and identify it as a quotation.