[This is the text of my essay.] At the beginning, it was uncertain how the assassination caused the war to happen, as other assassinations had happened in the previous five years, yet had caused no lasting consequence. What was different this time? One historian suggests that
"The Austrians were now determined to crush their Serbian enemy for good. They issued an ultimatum that would, if accepted, have turned Serbia virtually into a client state of the Dual Monarchy. This the Russians could not have tolerated, and the Austrians knew it; so before issuing their ultimatum they obtained what became known as 'a blank cheque' from Berlin, assuring them of German support in the event of war." (Howard, 2002, p. 15)
Quotes should be in double quotation marks. (This is requirement of submitting texts to Turnitin.) The citation comes at the end of the quote.
You can shorten quotes. This is done by a device called ellipsis, and which looks like three dots together, i.e. ... This is what it looks like, using the example again:
"The Austrians were now determined to crush their Serbian enemy for good. They issued an ultimatum that would, if accepted, have turned Serbia virtually into a client state of the Dual Monarchy. This the Russians could not have tolerated ... [so the Austrians] obtained what became known as 'a blank cheque' from Berlin, assuring them of German support in the event of war." (Howard, 2002, p. 15)
When you cut words out of a quote, you sometimes need to include a few words to make the quote make sense grammatically. To do this, you add a few words within square brackets, i.e. [ ]
