Yesterday I asked a question about MLA style. How would you show a caption inside of the paper?

If you were to add a piece of a text from another work, do you just put a number to signify what you are trying to use?


I'm still confused on this matter.


Thanks in advance!!Yesterday I asked a question about MLA style. How would you show a caption inside of the paper?
Check your MLA handbook but usually how you show that you are quoting a piece of work form another source is to indent 2'; for each margin if it is a quote that will take up more than 3 lines of type, type in your quote and at the end in parentheses, type in the author or authors last name followed by a comma and then the page number. You punctuation goes on the outside of the closing parenthesis. If your quote is 3 typed lines or less you just include it as part of the sentence and paragraph enclosing the quoted material with quotation makes followed by parentheses in which you type the author or authors last name followed by a comma and then the page number. You punctuation goes on the outside of the closing parenthesis.





So a long quote would look something like this:





----------------Words, words, words...........................--------鈥?br>

----------------words.................鈥?br>

----------------quoted material................................鈥?br>

----------------material being quoted (Jones, 687).-------------------





The dashes indicate the 2-inch indetations.





A short quotation fits into the sentence ';Material being quoted'; (Jones and Jones, 273).





WA





English major, English tutor and published author.Yesterday I asked a question about MLA style. How would you show a caption inside of the paper?
You can do it like this:





';Quote'; (Author of quote and pg#).





Note the period goes outside the quotation marks after the parentheses. The author of the quote should match the name in the works cited.