Quotations
Formatting Style
- Author (year: page); or (Author year: page).
:: Examples
Adorno and Horkheimer (2002: 38) state that ...
"..." (Adorno and Horkheimer 2002: 38).
Allen (1996: passim) presents an overview of ...
There are works (e.g., Allen 1996, McNay 2008b) that present an overview of ...
McNay (2008a: 279) states that ...
Ellipses within quotations
- In square brackets: [...]
- Do not mark omissions at the beginning or end of a quotation
Long quotations
- Quotations longer than three or four lines should appear in block quotations
- Font size: 10
- Line spacing: 1,0
- Indent: 2cm on the left and 0,5 on the right side
* Quotations translated by the author(s)
- Indicate the authorship of the translation after the quotation's source
:: Examples
"Reification is a modern phenomenon" (Lukács 1968: 164, my trans.)
"Reification is a modern phenomenon" (Lukács 1968: 164, trans. XY) [where XY are the author's name initials]
- The same applies for existing translations which have been amended by the author(s)
:: Example
"Reification is a modern manifestation" (Lukács 1968: 164, trans. amended)