If you’re deleting the termination of a quoted sentence, or you are deleting entire sentences of a paragraph before continuing a quotation, add one additional period and put the ellipsis after the last word you may be quoting, so that you have four in all:

If you begin your quotation of an author in the middle of a sentence, you’ll need not indicate deleted words with an ellipsis. Be sure, however, that the syntax of this quotation fits smoothly aided by the syntax of one’s sentence:

Reading “is a noble exercise,” writes Henry David Thoreau.

Using Brackets

Use square brackets whenever you want to add or substitute words in a quoted sentence. The brackets indicate into the reader a word or phrase that does not can be found in the passage that is original that you have got inserted in order to avoid confusion. Read more