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How do I cite a quote??? I Need HELP FAST!!!?
I need help to cite a quote in MLA format for a bibliography. How do I do it??? Any help is appreciated. Can someone just give the basic format. the quote is from a website BTW.
THXS
I've checked the quotes and they are legit
4 Answers
- Anonymous7 years ago
If it's "from a website," then you can't use it in your paper. Here's why:
1. Those internet quote websites are notoriously unreliable. Most of the quotes in them are either misquoted, or attributed to the wrong person, or just totally made up with a famous name slapped onto the end of them. Einstein and Lincoln and Lao Tzu didn't say about 99% of the stupid crap that's attributed to them on those stupid websites.
2. The website almost certainly did not give you a source for the alleged quote. Just a name. It doesn't say what book or speech or movie or whatever the quote came from. So you can't cite it. And if you don't know where it came from, you can't use it, because you don't know who said it, or if it's exactly correct.
3. If you didn't read it in context -- if it's just a sentence ripped completely out of the context in which it was first said -- it's stupid to use it because you are probably not understanding it correctly.
So you can't use it, sorry. So the question of how to cite it is moot, because it's not going to be in your paper at all.
- Anonymous7 years ago
go to easy bib and just copy and paste the link of the page it will do it for you
