USING THE HARVARD STYLE.

Good quotation practice

If you want to insert a long quotation (over two lines) but do not to want include all of the

text, you can remove the unnecessary text and replace with ‘...’.

As summarised by Smith (2004):

‘Mathematics provides a powerful universal language and intellectual toolkit for

abstraction, generalization and synthesis ... It enables us to probe the natural

universe and to develop new technologies that have helped us control and master

our environment, and change societal expectations and standards of living.’ (p.11)

You should only do this when you use a quotation taken from one paragraph.

When you use quotations within your text, sometimes you may want to insert one or two

words in the quotation so that your complete sentence is grammatically correct. To indicate

that you have inserted words into a quotation, these have to be enclosed in square brackets.

Smith (2004) provides a number of reasons as to why mathematics is important,

stating that it is:

‘a powerful universal language and intellectual toolkit for abstraction, generalization

and synthesis ... [and] enables us to probe the natural universe and to develop new

technologies that have helped us control and master our environment, and change

societal expectations and standards of living.’ (p.11)