A short quotation contains no more than four lines of quoted material. Normal MLA formatting should be used when incorporating a short quotation into your work. This includes reference to the author and page number of the quotation. The author’s last name can be referenced in the introduction of the quote or in the parenthetical citation. Page numbers should be referenced only in the parenthetical citation. All punctuation should come after the parenthetical citation. Also note that any quotation marks in the original text are marked with single quotation marks in the quoted material. Short Quotations According to Ken Binmore, “Something is common knowledge if everybody knows it, everybody knows that everybody knows it, everybody knows that everybody knows that everybody knows it; and so on” (43). Long Quotations A long quotation contains more than four lines of quoted material. Place a colon after the introduction to the quotation, and indent the whole quotation one inch from the left side. These quotations can be either single or double-­‐
spaced, and should not contain quotation marks unless they occur in the original text. Additionally, the parenthetical citation should occur after the quote’s punctuation. Note: This differs from the placement for a short quotation citation. Ken Binmore discusses the definition of common knowledge in game theory: Something is common knowledge if everybody knows it, everybody knows that everybody knows it, everybody knows that everybody knows that everybody knows it; and so on. If nothing is said to the contrary in a rational analysis of a game, it is always implicitly being assumed that both the game and the rationality of the players are common knowledge. (43) Refer to The Little Seagull Handbook for additional help with quotations. Work Cited Binmore, Ken. Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.