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Formatting rules for quoting external sources (papers, articles, web pages, prompt templates) inside a Markdown document. Quotations always live in fenced code blocks (never the `>` blockquote syntax), original and translation sit together, source references go on the line after the fence, and bare numeric references like `[1]` are forbidden. Other sourced-writing skills (survey, ja-explainer, ...) reference this skill. Consult whenever you write or edit a quotation block.

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# Writing Quotation

Formatting rules for quoting external sources inside a Markdown document. Other skills that produce sourced deliverables (`survey`, `ja-explainer`, and similar) reference this one.

## 1. Why quote the original

A summary alone does not let the reader judge whether the writer's reading of the source is correct. Placing the original alongside lets the reader cross-check the writer's interpretation against the source itself. Quotations and prose (the writer's own summary or interpretation) must stay visually and structurally distinct.

## 2. Quotations always go inside code blocks

Quote external sources inside a fenced code block, regardless of content type — prose, prompt templates, code, XML-tagged text, anything. Do not use the blockquote syntax (`>`).

## 3. Structure of a quotation block