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Sunday, January 5th<\/sup>, 2020
Blog #9 of my learning from #TheChicagoManualOfStyle.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quotations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guidelines:  <\/strong>For Inline or block quotes, give credit to the source (covered in Chapter 14<\/em>) with needed written permissions for multi-line references. Too many<\/em> quotations may be distracting. So consider paraphrasing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you quote, take great pains to be verbatim. Certain changes, however, are tolerated like punctuations, the original notes of reference, obvious typographic errors, font, appearance, and indentations, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appearance: <\/strong>Run-In<\/em>: This term means inside the same line as the surrounding text. Run-ins are quotes \u201clike this for short ones.\u201d Phrase fragmentary quotations \u201cin such a way that the words fit into the larger sentence logically\u201d as described in TCMOS, Chapter 13<\/em>. You must also integrate tense and pronouns wisely (quote a subset versus the entire) to keep the integrity of the sentence intact. You are encouraged to use [<\/strong>to put in brackets the original wording of the changed text]<\/strong> next to the word altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For larger quotes (say, over a hundred words), use block quotations, starting on a new line with a left indent. Salutations, signatures would make block quotations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punctuation starting a quotation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use of a comma in the examples below works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabella said, \u201cNever!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason wrote, \u201cMy wife said never\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the following dialogues are correct but note the difference in capitalization and punctuation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know her name,\u201d she whispered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know,\u201d she whispered, \u201cher name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The h<\/em> of \u201cher\u201d is lowercase because the parts of dialogue before and after the tag are subordinate. If they weren\u2019t, capitalize the h<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But don\u2019t use a comma if you were introducing a quotation \u201cLong live opera!\u201d in a sentence. A similar rule applies to dialogues written as statements. You can also introduce a quotation with a colon: \u201cI have miles to go before I sleep.\u201d Note the capitalized I.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a block quotation that follow a period, indent the whole section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paragraph following the block quotation assumes normal indentation unless it\u2019s a continuation of the clause that introduced it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitalization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When introducing a quotation in the middle such that it \u201cf<\/strong>orms a syntactical part of the sentence,\u201d begin it with a lowercase letter unless it forms a remote relation with the sentence: \u201cT<\/strong>he woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep.\u201d The guiding principle <\/em>is that if you can use the quote in a sentence tied to the overall structure, whether run-in or block quotation, the first letter is lowercase, else capitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry extracts are center-aligned on a separate paragraph, but if multiple stanzas of a long poem exist, they are best uniformly aligned left. Half to a full line appears between stanzas. Runover lines in poetry extracts are indented one em from the line above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quotation Marks<\/p>\n\n\n\n