Examples of Short Quotations
• If your quotations are less than four lines long across the formatted, typed page, place them in your text and enclose them with quotation marks.
• In-text citations can come either in the signal phrase or in the in-text parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence, never both.
• Please visit Examples of In-text Citations & Corresponding Works Cited Entries for more examples. Here are three ways to incorporate direct quotations into your own sentence:
Original Text from Source
Racism of this kind, racism that infects the very structure of our society, is called systemic racism. And at first glance, it may be difficult to detect.
Direct Quotations with In-text Citations
Using phrases from a source to “complete the sentence”: Some define “systemic racism” as “racism that infects the very structure of our society” (“7 Ways We”).
Works Cited Entry:
“7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism Is Real.” Ben & Jerry’s,
www.benjerry.com/home/whats- new/2016/systemic-racism-is-real. Accessed 15 Aug. 2018.
Using a signal phrase and a colon:
It is often easier to choose the path of self-destruction when you don’t consider who you are taking along for the ride, to die drunk in the street if you experience the deprivation as your own, and not the deprivation of family, friends, and community.
Coates makes an astute observation: “it is often easier to choose the path of self-destruction when you don’t consider who you are taking along for the ride.”
Works Cited Entry:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye.” The Atlantic, 7 May 2018,
www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05 /im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/ Accessed 7 Aug. 2018.
Using a signal phrase and a comma:
When asked about the Civil War, a Southern man responded lucidly by quoting William Faulkner, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past”(qtd. in Blount et al. 372).
And then the third thing is the legacy of the Southern author, William Faulkner, who said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Works Cited Entry:
Blount, Brian K., et al. “Exploring Race/Racism past and Present: A Forum at Union Presbyterian Seminary.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible & Theology, vol. 71, no. 4, Oct. 2017, pp. 371-397. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/0020964317716129. Accessed 15 Aug. 2018.
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