When using quotes the wording that you have used in your assignment needs to be EXACTLY the same as the text from the source.
Single quotation marks must be used at the beginning and end of the quote so the reader knows where the quote begins and ends.
Quotes should not be altered into italics, underlined or emboldened unless you want to highlight/emphasise a specific word in the quote. If you do this cite the quote as: (Egan, 2002:186 emphasis added) to show you have altered it.
If the information from a source you are using as a direct quote runs over two pages, use both page numbers, for example: (2016:1-2).
If you do not use the whole sentence, make sure you use ellipses which are the following: ‘…’ to indicate which part of the sentence is missing; these may be at the start of the quote, the end of the quote, or in the middle if you have shortened the wording.
If you come across a mistake in a quote and do not want this mistake to be attributed to you, you can add the term [sic] next to the error. This can also apply to different spellings of words e.g. color and colour
If you want to insert words into a quote you can add square brackets [ ] around the additional text but remember the sentence must make grammatical sense. It is important to use square brackets and not round brackets around the extra text because this indicates that this is your addition and not the authors.