Quotation

A quotation is a piece of text that you copy verbatim from the source.

Your report should never consist of quotations strung together. As a rule of thumb, for every line you quote, you should write at least two lines analyzing the quotation.

The rules for quoting are:

For more information about citing according to APA guidelines, please consult the Hanze Libguide.

An example of how a citation might appear in your paper (APA style): “We show that SARS-CoV-2 is shed early in the course of infection in some patients, with viral load in the respiratory tract being significantly higher than in other tissues” (Stein et al., 2022, p. 128).