How do I format a quotation of a vertical list?

In most cases, information from a vertical list is best presented by integrating quotations from relevant items into your prose or by paraphrasing. If it is important to reproduce the entire list or multiple consecutive list items, however, you may do so in the form of a block quotation, reproducing the formatting in the source:

Sasha recalls a list of goals she had taped to her wall:

Find a band to manage
Understand the news
Study Japanese
Practice the harp (Egan 7)

Work Cited

Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad. Vintage Books, 2010.

If the list is bulleted or numbered, reproduce the bullets or numbers: 

In the middle of one slide is a tall rectangular prism representing a wall. On the left side of the wall, Alison writes:

• 2 knocks from his side = “Good night, Ally.”
• Mom will go to his room next.
• Lincoln gets her longest. (Egan 260)

Work Cited

Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad. Vintage Books, 2010.

Because unlike other kinds of block quotations—of prose, verse, or dialogue—a block quotation of a list might be read as a paraphrase of your source, your introductory prose should make clear that it is a quotation.