Question

1. How do I cite quotations of a play?

2. How do I punctuate block quote?


*****EXAMPLES WOULD BE HELPFUL!

Answer 1

MLA or APA??

Answer 2

OK, no response ... so I'll give you this information:

You need to have each source of information <b>cited in TWO places</b>:

1. <b>the Works Cited page</b> that is placed after the last page of your paper, and
2. <b>in parentheses in the text of your paper</b>, immediately after the quotation or paraphrase.

For example, this would go on the Works Cited page (with proper indentation for the second and following lines):

Du Bois, W.E.B. <i>The Souls of Black Folk</i>. Chicago, 1903. <i>Project Bartleby</i>. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen. Dec. 1995. Columbia U. 2 Dec. 2003
<www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/dubois/>.

... and this would go immediately after the quotation or whatever:
(Du Bois)

The information in parentheses in the text needs to be as brief as possible. That's why there's a Works Cited page – for all the details of the listing.

This is a good place for information on citing in MLA format:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
The contents are linked at the left.