Use double quotation marks around short quotations of less than four lines of typed prose or three lines of typed verse. Use single quotation marks if there is a quotation within your quotation.
Add a set of parentheses after the quotation. Enter the author of the quotation and the page number on which the quotation appears inside the parentheses. Use only the page number if the author is mentioned in the sentence in which the quotation is included.
Keep the quotation's punctuation inside the quotation marks. Include only punctuation that is part of the quotation; do not add any within the quotation marks. Insert a slash to denote the end of a line of verse within a quotation. Add a space before and after the slash.
Make a free-standing text block if the quotation is longer than four lines of prose or three lines of verse. Indent the block one inch further than the rest of the text on the page. Add a blank line before and after the block of text.
Add the line number to the information inside the parentheses for quotations of verse. Leave formatting of long quotations of verse the same as it is in the original text, if possible.
Denote additions within the quotation by using brackets around the added word or words. Use ellipsis in the place of any omitted words within a quotation.