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• 17th edition

13: Quotations and Dialogue

• Overview
• 13.1Scope of this chapter—and where else to look
• 13.2Quotations and modern scholarship
• 13.3Giving credit and seeking permission
• 13.4When to paraphrase rather than quote
• 13.5When quotation and attribution is unnecessary
• 13.6Ensuring accuracy of quotations
• Permissible Changes to Quotations
• 13.7Permissible changes to punctuation, capitalization, and spelling
• 13.8Permissible changes to typography and layout
• Quotations in Relation to Text
• Run In or Set Off
• 13.9Run-in versus block quotations
• 13.10Choosing between run-in and block quotations
• Assimilation into the Surrounding Text
• 13.11Logical and grammatical assimilation
• 13.12Integrating tenses and pronouns
• Initial Capital or Lowercase Letter
• 13.13Changing capitalization to suit syntax—an overview
• 13.14Initial capital or lowercase—run-in quotations
• 13.15Initial capital or lowercase—block quotations
• 13.16Brackets to indicate a change in capitalization
• Introductory Phrases and Punctuation
• 13.17Colon preceding a quotation
• 13.18Comma preceding a quotation
• 13.19Period rather than colon preceding a quotation
• Paragraphing
• 13.20Block quotations of more than one paragraph
• 13.21Block quotations beginning in text
• 13.22Text following a block quotation
• Poetry
• 13.23Setting off poetry
• 13.24Uniform indention for poetry
• 13.25Long lines and runovers in poetry
• 13.26Quotation marks in poems
• 13.27Run-in poetry quotations
• Quotation Marks
• Double or Single
• 13.28Quotations and “quotes within quotes”
• 13.29Quotation marks in block quotations
• Run-In Quotations of More Than One Paragraph
• 13.30Quotation marks across paragraphs
• 13.31Quotations within quotations across paragraphs
• 13.32Running in more than one stanza of poetry
• 13.33Running in letters
• Quotation Marks Omitted
• 13.34Epigraphs
• 13.35Decorative initials (“drop caps” and raised initials)
• 13.36Maxims, questions, and the like
• Speech, Dialogue, and Conversation
• 13.37Direct discourse
• 13.38Single-word speech
• 13.39Faltering or interrupted speech
• 13.40Alternatives to quotation marks
• 13.41Unspoken discourse
• 13.42Numerals in direct discourse
• 13.43Indirect discourse
• Drama, Discussions and Interviews, and Field Notes
• 13.44Drama
• 13.45Shared lines and runover lines in verse drama
• 13.46Discussions and interviews
• 13.47Field notes
• Ellipses
• 13.48Ellipses defined
• 13.49Danger of skewing meaning
• 13.50When not to use ellipsis points
• 13.51Ellipses with periods
• 13.52Ellipses with other punctuation
• 13.53Deliberately incomplete sentence
• 13.54Whole or partial paragraphs omitted
• 13.55Ellipsis points in poetry and verse drama
• 13.56Bracketed ellipses
• Interpolations and Clarifications
• 13.57Missing or illegible words
• 13.58Bracketed clarifications
• 13.59“Sic”
• 13.60“Italics added”
• 13.61Interpolations requiring quotation marks
• Citing Sources in Text
• 13.62Use of parentheses with in-text citations
• 13.63Full in-text citation
• 13.64The use of “ibid.” with subsequent in-text citations
• 13.65Frequent reference to a single source cited in a note
• Sources Following Run-In Quotations
• 13.66Punctuation following source
• 13.67Question mark or exclamation point preceding source
• Sources Following Block Quotations
• 13.68Punctuation preceding source
• 13.69Parenthetical citations with poetry extracts
• 13.70Shortened references to poetry extracts
• Foreign-Language Quotations
• 13.71Typographic style of foreign quotations
• 13.72Whether translation is needed
• 13.73Where to place translations
• 13.74Source plus translation
• 13.75Including original-language version in note
• 13.76Crediting the translation
• 13.77Adjusting translations
• 13.78Editing translations
• 13.79The sin of retranslation