How do you make a quotation from an article?

Question

How do you make a quotation from an article?

Answer 1

You take a small sentence that you want to quote from your article, and you put it in quotation marks.

Like: "Development will be slowed by such a move"

If you are doing a formal report, you probably will want to put your referencing too, to indicate where you got the article from. You put these in brackets. For example,

"Development will be slowed by such a move" (Smith, 1988, p. 80).

or

As said by Smith (1998, p.80), "Development will be slowed by such a move".

There are many different ways to reference a quote. This is just one of them.

At the end of your report, you have a section called references. And here, you put the full details of the article you got the quote from. Example:

Smith, P. (1988). An argument against wet paddy mechanization of wet paddy agriculture. Journal of Rice Production,  Volume 8, Issues 34-60.