Block Quotes
For quotations that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse, place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented 1/2 inch from the left margin while maintaining double-spacing. Your parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.
Text Discrepancies:
- When quoting verse (poetry), maintain original line breaks, trying to keep the formatting as close to the original as possible.
- When citing two or more paragraphs, use block quotation format, even if the passage from the paragraphs is less than four lines.
- If you cite more than one paragraph, the first line of the second paragraph should be indented an extra 1/4 inch to denote a new paragraph.