[Tex/LaTex] Align Quote to right

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I want to align

\begin{quote}
  Text
  Author (\cite{Source})
\end{quote}

to the right side of the paper. How can I do this?

Best Answer

redefine the quote environment

\renewenvironment{quote}
  {\begin{trivlist} \setlength\leftskip{2cm} \setlength\rightskip{0pt}
   \item\relax}
  {\end{trivlist}}

or define a new Quote environment with the same code

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[Tex/LaTex] Quote environment with reference at the end right

There's a nice \signed macro that serves this purpose on page 106 of the TeXbook; here's a little variation used to build the aquote environment which behaves as expected;

\documentclass{book}

\def\signed #1{{\leavevmode\unskip\nobreak\hfil\penalty50\hskip2em
  \hbox{}\nobreak\hfil(#1)%
  \parfillskip=0pt \finalhyphendemerits=0 \endgraf}}

\newsavebox\mybox
\newenvironment{aquote}[1]
  {\savebox\mybox{#1}\begin{quote}}
  {\signed{\usebox\mybox}\end{quote}}

\begin{document}

\begin{aquote}{Bourbaki}
This is a case where the name fits in nicely with the quote so the name will appear in the same line.
\end{aquote}

\begin{aquote}{Nicolas Bourbaki}
This is a case where the name won't fit in nicely with the quote, and in this case the name will be moved to the next line.
\end{aquote}

\end{document}

Here's the result:

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[Tex/LaTex] Quote environment with long reference at the end right – without widows

Placing the SOURCE in a \parbox[<v-align>]{<width>}{<stuff>} allows you to display it in a paragraph with \raggedleft justification (similar to flushright). It also allows for less of a separation between the QUOTE and SOURCE. Together with \nobreak, the following minimal example hopefully produces what you want:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\newcommand{\source}[1]{%
  \nobreak\parbox[t]{\linewidth}{\raggedleft #1}% Placing a quote source
}%

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\lipsum[1-3]
\begin{quote}
  \lipsum[2]
  \source{%
    This is the source for this quote and it is very long. Must be an important 
    reference, otherwise it would not warrant having as much here.%
  }
\end{quote}
\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Source stuck to quote

You may need to play around with the SOURCE formatting to suit your liking.

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