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I am using Symphony 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 if but right now all it does is blockquote the whole line. How does one do this in markdown syntax?

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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

ceejayoz
I would use an — instead of two hyphens.
Evan
@Evan Style is entirely up to the user. My Markdown install includes Smartypants, which turns -- into an emdash.
ceejayoz