Citing the author of a blockquote using Markdown syntax

markdown citations
CMS Critic picture CMS Critic · Jan 4, 2010 · Viewed 68.2k times · Source

I am using the Symfony CMS and it uses Markdown for article writing. I need to do a blockquote of a quote from Benjamin Franklin and would like to have the quote followed by a citation beneath it, but right now all it does is blockquote the whole line. How does one do this in markdown syntax?

Answer

ceejayoz picture ceejayoz · Jan 4, 2010

Markdown has no dedicated citation syntax.

Your best bet is something like this:

> Quote here.
>
> -- <cite>Benjamin Franklin</cite>

which results in:

Quote here.

-- Benjamin Franklin

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