Question

Is it possible for me to quote two or three different sections of a work one after the other under one citation? I dont want to cite each excerpt separately.

Answer 1

Will these be short bits worked into your own text then? And they'll be exact quotations? If you can work the author's name into your text, such that your citation need only include the page number, then individual citations (that is, page numbers in parens) will be very discreet. They'll not interrupt the flow of your text.

That's in MLA style. I'm not familiar with APA.

Answer 2

In APA you can do this a couple of ways. The first is to paraphrase all the bits into one coherent thought and cite it at the end of the sentence or sentences (Author, Year).

If you are quoting each bit you can use the ellipsis to string the bits together (again it should be coherent) and cite at the end of the quote as a quotation that spans the pages of the information.

"Yada yada yada . . . Something else . . . another thing . . . Finally something else" (Author, Year, p.p. 100-105).

Avoid the second method if the bits are far apart in the text as it could be hard to track down each bit, but if the bits are in the same section of the text, it should be no problem.

Answer 3

Nicely put!