: Re: Can you omit words from a sentence and correctly cite that text? In a source, I have the sentence: Trafficking in children from Togo, Nigeria, Mali, to Cote dâ€™Ivoireâ€™s plantation and domestic

The cleanest quoting approach would be as follows:

"[Trafficking] domestic servants in [Sierra Leone] as exploited sex
workers [...] has also taken root"

Brackets can be used to show that you've summarized or edited excluded text, not merely removed it. But in this case I'd lean towards paraphrasing, e.g.:

Whomever (Whomever et al, 2017) make the case that domestic servants
from Sierra Leone are increasingly being trafficked and exploited as
sex workers.

If you think it's essential you can add the full quote as a footnote. This allows you to focus on the information you need (and avoid some of the given quote's grammatical issues) without sacrificing readability or altering the meaning of the original text.

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