What is the protocol for omitting words from a quotation--i.e. changing first-person to third-person?

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Ramon Dahlheimer: In this case, where you're letting the quotation stand on its own, and not making it an integral part of your own sentence, you would make no changes. What you have written is fine.The problem occurs when you are integtrating a partial quotation into your own sentence. For example, you might write:Humbert said that "[he] recall[ed] that on this and similar occasions it was always [his] habit ....... (and so forth).Anything that you add or change, you put square brackets around....Show more