Formating Block Quotations

• Chicago/ Turabian
• MLA
• APA
• AMA

Longer quotations are formatted as block quotes. Block quotes are continuously indented from the left margin the same distance as a paragraph indent. They are required with longer quotations, although what constitutes УlongerФ varies widely.

1. Quotes of a hundred words or more--or at least eight lines--are set off as a block quotation (Chicago).
2. Quotation of two or more sentences that runs to eight or more lines of text in a paper should be set off from the text in single-spacing and indented in its entirety . . . From the left margin (Turabian).
3. When the quotation runs to more than four lines in your paper (MLA).
4. Quotation of more than 40 words in a free-standing block of typewritten lines and omit the quotation marks (APA).