The author and punctuation.
1) Instead of “the author,” just write the author’s name.
E.g. NOT “The author’s novel…” but “Hemingway’s novel…”
Two more details:
i) remember, in literature papers, to avoid Slovenian-style initials – NOT “C. Dickens” but “Charles Dickens” or just “Dickens”
ii) “author” sounds odd in visual arts. Picasso was a painter.
2) If your quotation has sentence-ending punctuation, there’s no need to add another period.
“And then,” Sally exclaimed, “I ran to the waterfall!”. (sic)
Larry asked, “So what?”. (sic)
On a similar note, if your sentence doesn’t end, chop the sentence-ending punctuation:
“This is the end.” (sic) is how the song starts.
The rest of the tips are available at:
http://www2.arnes.si/~bjason/LW%20tips.pdf
(Skupno 37 obiskov, današnjih obiskov 1)