Bibliography for a quote in a novel

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So, getting ready to publish my book soon(self publishing through a website) and I'm ending the novel series with a quote by the psychoanalyst, Carl G. Jung.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

1. How do I figure out where this from to make proper reference to it?

2. For a novel, I'd need to give credit for any quotes I use. Would I do that through a bibliography? Or do I include that information in the front of the book with the copyright?

3. I haven't done a bibliography in years and I vaguely remember it. If it's required, how exactly would I go about constructing one properly for a novel?

4. Looking through the books I have, the only thing I could find similar was Stephen King using song lyrics and making note of actual permission to use them listing the singers/songwriters names in the copyright page of his novel. For something like this simple quote, do I need to get permission to use it before I put it in my book?

As I said, I'm self publishing, so, I need to do this leg work myself but I am not sure about these points and the proper methods of doing this.
 
So, getting ready to publish my book soon(self publishing through a website) and I'm ending the novel series with a quote by the psychoanalyst, Carl G. Jung.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

1. How do I figure out where this from to make proper reference to it?

2. For a novel, I'd need to give credit for any quotes I use. Would I do that through a bibliography? Or do I include that information in the front of the book with the copyright?

3. I haven't done a bibliography in years and I vaguely remember it. If it's required, how exactly would I go about constructing one properly for a novel?

4. Looking through the books I have, the only thing I could find similar was Stephen King using song lyrics and making note of actual permission to use them listing the singers/songwriters names in the copyright page of his novel. For something like this simple quote, do I need to get permission to use it before I put it in my book?

As I said, I'm self publishing, so, I need to do this leg work myself but I am not sure about these points and the proper methods of doing this.

1. It depends on how you are using it; if you are using it as a intro quote, then a simple "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" - C.G. Jung is plenty. It's a common enough quote.

2. You include it in the front of the book, in your acknowledgements. If you wish, you can have a biblio, but if it's only one citation, then it's probably not worth it. But the acknowledgements are a must.

3. Depending on the format, it would be: Last Name, First Name. Title of book in italics. Edition Number. Publication location: Publisher name, Year of publication. (this is Chicago-Turbian style. APA and MLA are different).

4.Jung is pretty much public domain, so no permission is needed from his estate, though check to be sure. As he died 50 years ago, in many cases the author's work reverts to public domain. However, for a quote as common as that I would assume that it's public domain as many self-published books use it.
 
1. It depends on how you are using it; if you are using it as a intro quote, then a simple "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" - C.G. Jung is plenty. It's a common enough quote.

2. You include it in the front of the book, in your acknowledgements. If you wish, you can have a biblio, but if it's only one citation, then it's probably not worth it. But the acknowledgements are a must.

3. Depending on the format, it would be: Last Name, First Name. Title of book in italics. Edition Number. Publication location: Publisher name, Year of publication. (this is Chicago-Turbian style. APA and MLA are different).

4.Jung is pretty much public domain, so no permission is needed from his estate, though check to be sure. As he died 50 years ago, in many cases the author's work reverts to public domain. However, for a quote as common as that I would assume that it's public domain as many self-published books use it.

Thank you so much! I thought maybe but since this is my first published work I was unfamiliar with how this sort of thing is handled.
 
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