Elipses

Elipses can be used to show omission, which is especially helpful when you want to include a quote in your paper, but not all of the quote.

Elipses look like this: ...

Example:

Adamson explains that "the trickster figure, while crucial to Native American mythos, also surfaces in African-American mythology...this figure also presents itself in most modern literature of today" (137).

Notice that the elipses (...) are included in this quote to show that some of the quote has been omited, as it was irrelevant to the argument. Also notice that the elipses only uses THREE dots--no more and no less.