Citing Sources

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Citing Sources Integrating Quotations
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When to Use Quotations

• Select quotations carefully for your research
  paper
• to illustrate or explain an opinion or idea
• to assert a fact
• to provide support for a claim you have made

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How to Integrate Quotations

• Quotations should end with the authors name and
  a page number OR margin numbers in
  parenthesis.
• Socrates states in the Meno As the soul is
  immortal . . .there is nothing which it has not
  learned (81 d).

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Works Cited Plato Complete Works. (Editor)
John M. Cooper. Cambridge Hackett Company, 1997.
Print.
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• Quotations should end with the authors name and
  a page number OR margin numbers in
  parenthesis.
• In his article on progressive education Manilow
  concludes, By the end of our education we, like
  Meno, learn not to take what we hear for granted
  (Manilow, 220).

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Works Cited Manilow, Aaron. "An Exploration of
Education." Schools Studies in Education 6.2
(2009) 215-221. Education Research Complete.
EBSCO. Web. 15 Apr. 2010.
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How to Integrate Quotations

• Setting up quotes with "that does not need a
  comma or colon. Notice the punctuation.
• In the Meno, it is also mentioned that The
  truth about reality is always in our soul (86 b).

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How to Integrate Quotations

• Use brackets to indicate editorial changes
  that you make to clarify or improve the
  quotation.
• According to Manilow, We learn to take those
  facts and opinions presented to us and
  investigate them rationally (Manilow, 230).

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Punctuating Quotations

• Use an ellipsis . . . to indicate
  material omitted from the quotation.
• At the beginning of the Ethics, Aristotle
  states that Every art . . . aims at some good
  (I, 5).

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Works Cited Aristotle Selected Works.
(Editor) Hippocrates G. Apostle. Grinnell, Iowa
Peripatetic, 1986. Print.