Block Quotations.
Short quotations — say, no more than three or four lines — usually appear in the text surrounded by quotation marks, “like this.” Longer direct quotations, though — and sometimes shorter quotations of poetry — should be set off as block quotations or extracts, thus:
Notice that the quotation is indented on both sides: most word processors make that easy. Notice, too, that you don’t use quotation marks around a block quotation: the indention (not “indentation”) is enough to indicate it’s a quotation. Some house styles prefer block quotations to be single-spaced, others like them double-spaced; that’s not something to fret about unless you’re writing for publication.
Always be sure to include proper citations in block quotations; the usual route is to put the citation in parentheses after the closing punctuation in the quotation itself.
Jack Lynch (2001, August 3), <i>Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style — B</i>. Retrieved Tuesday, September 16, 2003, from <a href="http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/b.html#block" title="Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style — B">www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/ ~jlynch/ Writing/ b.html#block</a>.