What is a long quote in MLA?

Rules for Long Quotations The long quotation is indented half an inch from the rest of the text, so it looks like a block of text. There are no quotation marks around the quotation. The period at the end of the quotation comes before your in-text citation as opposed to after, as it does with regular quotations.

How do you quote a quote in the middle of a sentence?

Quotation mark rulesIf you’re quoting a phrase or a part of a sentence, don’t start the quote with a capital letter:If you’re splitting a quote in half to interject a parenthetical, you should not capitalize the second part of the quote:If they apply to the quoted material, they go within the quotation marks.

Do you cite a quote at the end of a sentence?

The in-text citation should occur in the sentence where the cited material has been used: Signal phrase reference (author’s name) appears within the sentence with page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Full parenthetical reference (author last name and page number) appears at the end of the sentence.