Overview
Not sure how to introduce a quote in your academic work or professional content writing? When you work on a writing project that requires extensive research and factual information, you need to add context from other authors’ work to substantiate your assertions and present more credible information to accomplish your objectives of HD grades. In simple words, you need to introduce quotes in your work that include the information you are referring to in your content.
If in case you are not citing the quotes correctly, it can be considered a case of plagiarism. It would certainly have some negative consequences. If you are a student, you ought to know that most universities look at plagiarism as an unpardonable act of academic misconduct.
But don’t you worry at all! In this meticulous guide, we will tell you all about introducing quotes in your work and citing them properly to avoid plagiarism. So, let’s get started without further ado.
How to introduce a quote
You want to know how to cite a quote correctly? Let us have a look, we need to first comprehend how we can introduce a quote in our content. In the simplest terms, quoting means using an excerpt from someone else’s research papers. It can also be termed as previously published work to substantiate your opinions and arguments.
In the usual sense, if a quote is introduced with quotation marks, the proper attribution is to be given to the original author. The usual format is given below:
The author (s) stated, “quote.”
As you can see in the format above, the quote is added in double quotation marks and is preceded by a comma. At the end of the quote, a period is added to close the quotation marks.
For a better understanding of how a quote is to be introduced in the text, let us look at the following example.
Cultural dimensions have great significance in terms of determining the best-fit organizational policies and human resource management approaches when businesses expand to different countries. Cultural differences clearly explain how the motivations of different cultural groups vary from each other.
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Do you think the above way is the correct way of introducing a quote? Is there anything that is missing?
Well, yes, there is something very important that is missing in the introduction of the quote above. Although the quote is now introduced, it is not cited and this indeed can account for plagiarism. Even after using the quotation marks, you need to cite the quote and give correct attribution to the original source.
How this quote needs to be introduced in the correct format with a proper citation is illustrated below.
Correct introduction to a quote
| Cultural dimensions have great significance in terms of determining the best-fit organizational policies. Also, human resource management approaches when businesses expand to different countries. Cultural differences clearly explain how the motivations of different cultural groups vary from each other. As Geert Hofstede stated, “culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.” (Nakata, 2009)
Bibliography: Nakata, C. (2009). Going Beyond Hofstede: Why We Need to and How. Beyond Hofstede, 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230240834_1 |
As you can see, the quote is correctly introduced with in-text citation and bibliography reference.
