我在作文里引用了一句话，According to xx, "..." 这种表达是正确的吗？

Question

According to professor LingJiang, “If people are afraid of traffic problems and environmental pressures, we ought not to have weekends.”

Answer 1

没错，academic writing里面允许这种用法，再严谨一些把LingJiang后面加个括弧里面写上年份。