A-manual-for-writers-of-research-papers-theses-and-dissertations

If you omit material between sentences but quote the sentence preceding the omission infull, use a terminal punctuation mark immediately following that sentence. Leave a spacebetween that punctuation mark and the first ellipsis dot, as in the general method, shown inthe first example below. However, if the omission includes the end of the precedingsentence (even if what is left is a grammatically complete sentence), put a space instead ofa punctuation mark immediately following that sentence. After the space, use four ellipsisdots to represent the omission (as in the second example here).“When a nation is wrong, it should say so and apologize to the wronged party. . . . It should also take stepsto change the situation.”but“When a nation is wrong, it should say so . . . . It should also take steps to change the situation.”If you begin a quotation with a sentence that is grammatically complete despite anomission at the beginning of the sentence, indicate the omission with an ellipsis. If the firstword is capitalized in the quotation but not in the original, indicate the changed letter inbrackets (see 25.3.1).. . . [I]t should say so and apologize to the wronged party.”If you end a quotation with a sentence that is grammatically complete despite anomission at the end of the sentence, indicate the omission with a four-dot ellipsis, as youwould for an omitted ending between sentences.“When a nation is wrong, it should say so. . . .”SPECIAL TYPES OF OMISSIONS. The following practices apply to both the general and textualstudies methods of handling omissions.If you omit a full paragraph or more within a block quotation, indicate that omission with aperiod and three ellipsis dots at the end of the paragraph before the omission. If the quotationincludes another paragraph after the omission, indent the first line of the new paragraph. If itstarts in the middle of a paragraph, begin with three ellipsis points after the indentation.Merton writes:A brand-new conscience was just coming into existence as an actual, operating function of a soul. Mychoices were just about to become responsible. . . .. . . Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousandsof other people were bound to be affected.Show the omission of one or more complete lines of a poem quoted in a block quotation bya line of ellipsis points about as long as the line above it.The key passage reads as follows:Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more,For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .To all that wander in that perilous flood.www.itpub.net