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Created Mar 22, 2024Formatting a Block Quote
Formatting a block quote is the same for both APA and MLA formats! The only difference: in MLA, quotations become block quotes at 4 or more lines of prose and 3 or more lines of poetry, and in APA, quotations become block quotes at 40 or more words.
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Once back onto your paper, add the citation to the end of the quote after the last punctuation. This is one of the only cases where the citations follows the punctuation instead. There are no quotation marks on block quotes!
In APA: (Last Name, Year, page number)
In MLA (Last Name page number)
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