Choose the section you want to omit and replace it with an ellipsis.
Check the relationship between the sections before and after the ellipsis. Does the gap cross the ends of any sentences?
Insert punctuation around the ellipsis according to the following rules:
If the omission is in the middle of a sentence, as in the first paragraph of this article, no further punctuation is needed.
If the quotation ends with the omitted end of a sentence, the ellipsis should be followed by a period. Using the first sentence of this step, a sample quotation might be: "Insert punctuation around the ellipsis ... ."
If the omission begins directly after the end of a sentence, the period should be followed by an ellipsis. For instance, to return to the first paragraph of this article, a quotation might read "It most commonly indicates a gap in a quotation, where the author has omitted unimportant text. ... Punctuating after an ellipsis seems tricky but is actually quite simple."