In MLA documentation style or format, citing quotations requires the writer to format quotations depending the length of what is being quoted. For short quotations of four or less lines of prose or three lines of verse of poetry as the case may be; the quotation is enclosed in double quotation marks. This citation is an text citation which is integrated with a signal phrase. After the citation, in parenthesis add the name of the author and the page number and in the case of a verse provide the verse line.
When making a long quotation of more than four lines of prose and three lines of verse in poetry, place the quotation in a block form without quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new or fresh line and indent the quote half an inch from the left margin and maintain double-spacing. However when quoting verse maintain the original verse breaks. Also the name of the author and page number comes at the end of the quotation written in parenthesis.
