How do I format quotations using APA style?
For quotes 40 words or under in length, you simply put quotation marks around the exact words you are quoting.
Hunt, Rayside and Short (2014) argue that since the 1990s, Canadians have become increasingly more supportive of various equality rights for sexual minorities, including: employment equity, marriage and adoption rights for same-sex couples. "By the mid-2000s, over 90 per cent favoured equal rights for lesbians and gays in regard to job opportunities, about two-thirds supported civil unions for same-sex couples, and well over half favoured civil marriage" (Hunt, Rayside & Short, 2014, p. 171 ).
For quotes that are longer than 40 words, you must indent the direct quote and you do not use quotation marks:
Hunt, Rayside and Short (2014) argue that since the 1990s, Canadians have become increasingly more supportive of various equality rights for sexual minorities, including: employment equity, marriage and adoption rights for same-sex couples. They note that:
These shifts in attitude became most evident in the ways Canadians began to lean more strongly towards equal rights for sexual minorities. By the mid-2000s, over 90 per cent favoured equal rights for lesbians and gays in regard to job opportunities, about two-thirds supported civil unions for same-sex couples, and well over half favoured civil marriage. Adoption rights evoked more ambivalence, with the population about evenly split, but this too represented an enormous change over the previous twenty years (p. 171).
