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Multiple citations of the same piece within the same paragraph ?

I am writing a research paper on several books. I am using a lot of quotations all from the same book in one paragraph. For example: It isn’t until after he searches for a job that he begins to show any worry for his situation. “Here I had waited until I was down to my last dollar, thinking that I could always pick up a job somewhere. But nobody in the harbor would hire a thief” (Basement, 31). Yet despite the monetary hardships he continues his life mostly unaffected. Much later he is abandoned in the countryside by a woman named Extine. Charles is forced to walk for miles in a lost daze to find the highway. “It was a hot day and I had to remove my sweater and top shirt. I was still in pain and limping, very thirsty too, I remember, and slightly panicked I might die out there in the woods” (Basement, 212). Now is this proper format, or should I save the citations until the end of the paragraph and list them as (Basement, 31, 212).

Public Comments

1. no, you have it right.