Quoting, Citing and Abbreviations

The text editor supports the use of inline and block quotations, citations and defining instances within a text block.

Both inline and block quotations indicate the quotation of a section of text from another source. A block quote is useful for longer quotations consisting of several lines of text. For shorter quotations, use a simple inline quote. 

A citation can be used to indicate the cited title of a work, such as the title of a book, the name of a film, etc. A defining instance may be used to highlight the first occurrence of a term and its definition.

Quote

This option allows a short piece of selected text (normally within a sentence that does not require paragraph breaks) to be recognised as a quote. The text will be wrapped with an appropriate HTML tag that includes details such as the website URL from where the quotation was sourced.

Here is an example quotation:

The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web.

To add a short quotation, select the text that forms the quotation and press the "Quote" button on the toolbar. Enter the citation and title information in the displayed "Quotation" dialogue and click "OK" to mark the selected text as a quotation:

To edit the text within the quotation, click within the text and modify as required. To modify the citation information or the title:

• right-click in the quotation's text and choose the "Edit Quotation" option from the displayed menu, modify the details as required then click "OK"
• double-click within the quotation's text, modify the details as required and then click "OK"
• click within the quotation's text, click on the "Quote" toolbar button, modify the details as required and then click "OK"

To remove the quotation, right-click on its text and choose "Remove Quotation" from the displayed menu.

Block Quote

This option allows a long piece of selected text to be recognised as a block quote. The text will be wrapped with an appropriate HTML tag that includes details such as the website URL from where the quotation was sourced.

To add a block quotation, select the text that forms the quotation and press the "Block Quote" button on the toolbar. Enter the citation and title information in the displayed dialogue and click "OK" to mark the selected text as a quotation.

To edit the text within the block quotation, click within the text and modify as required. To modify the citation information or the title:

• right-click within the block quote then choose the "Edit Block Quote" option from the displayed menu, modify the details as required then click "OK"
• double-click within the the block quote, modify the details as required then click "OK"
• click within the block quote then press the "Block Quote" toolbar button, modify the details as required then click "OK"

To remove a block quotation, right-click on its text and choose the "Remove Quotation" option in the displayed menu.

Citation

A citation represents the cited title of a work, such as the title of a book, paper, essay, poem, score, song, script, film, TV show, game, sculpture, painting, theatre production, play, opera, musical, exhibition, legal case report, or other such work.

Here is an example use of a citation:

The Scream by Edward Munch. Painted in 1893.

To add a citation, select the citation text within the editor and press the "Cite" button on the toolbar. To remove the citation, select the citation's text and press the "Cite" button toolbar again.

Abbreviation

To add an abbreviation, first type and select the text that forms the abbreviation and then click the "Abbreviation" toolbar button. Specify the "Expanded phrase" within the displayed dialogue and then click OK to mark the selected text as an abbreviation.

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To edit an abbreviation:

• right-click on the abbreviation and choose the "Edit abbreviation" option from the displayed menu, modify the phrase as required and then click "OK"
• double-click the abbreviation, modify the phrase as required and then click "OK"
• click on the abbreviation, press the "Abbreviation" toolbar button, modify the phrase as required and then click "OK"

To remove an abbreviation, right-click on the abbreviation within the editor and choose the "Remove abbreviation" option from the displayed menu.