How To Cite A Quote

If you're writing any kind of academic work, you'll certainly need to cite a quote. If you're just using a short quote, you can put it in the main body of the text in quote marks. If you're quoting a long quote, then it's normally put in a separate paragraph, indented.

And it's introduced with a colon, and a line space, and there's usually a line space at the end of the quote. It's very important when you're citing, that you reference properly. You can do index referencing, footnotes, or end notes.

Footnotes used to be the most common way. In text, referencing is simpler because all you need to do is, after the quote, put in brackets, the name of the person you're quoting from, the date of the book, and then you put the page reference number. This makes it easy for the reader to go through the text without stumbling over footnotes.

You need to use the Harvard referencing system, usually. It means you put the surname of the author, then their initials, and the title of the book. If it's an article within a book, you put the article first.

You then put the publication, the publisher, the date, and sometimes the country in which it was published. That's how you cite a quote. .