Quotes and capitalization

15 February 2021

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Follow a style guide, establish your own rule (as if five lines of text make a block quote), and stick with it.
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Quote rules

The first rule of thumb for using appointments is that once opened, they must be closed. The person reading your work needs to know where the quote starts and ends. But that's easy. What about some more complicated quote rules?

Quotes and capitalization

Sometimes the text in quotes is capitalized, other times it is not. The use of capital letters in the cited material depends on the material itself; if you are citing a whole sentence, you must start the citation with a capital letter, even if the citation is placed in the middle of a sentence:

The exact phrase he used was "There is no way we will be on time."

If you are quoting a phrase or part of a sentence, do not start the quote with a capital letter:

He called them "loud, smelly and absolutely annoying" and closed the door.

If you divide a quote in half to insert a parenthesis, you should not capitalize the second part of the quote:

"The problem with opi

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