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How To Add Citations To Your Story

How To Style Direct Quotes or Excerpts Written By Others In Your Story

Written by Bertie

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When you want to directly quote the works of others in your story, you can use Citations to properly style them.

To Add a Citation:

Highlight any text in the paragraph you'd like to style as a Citation and select the citation icon:

The Citation text will look like this:

To Remove A Citation:

Highlight any text in the Citation and deselect the Citation icon:

Citations Versus Pull Quotes:

Citations are used to differentiate a section of quoted text, text from a source other than the story, from the text around it. When used correctly, it can enhance text content.
​Pull Quotes are made up of text that is pulled from existing text in the story—that is, duplicated—and presented on the page as an attention-grabbing visual element.
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