General

Unity uses 3 rotation systems. Intro to Quaternion Rotations (in Unity)

1. Euler Angers - rotation about x, y, z axis
2. Angle Axis - A normalized Vector3 representing the axis about which to rotate by float angle amount
3. Quaternions - Angle Axis rotation representation that have been scaled to improve performance.

They are in the form of x, y, z, w. They are always normalized, so x² + y² + z² + w² = 0

// This has to be normalized. We generally never use this
Quaternion rotation = new Quaternion(0,0,0,1);
 
// You usually create a rotation in euler and then convert to quaternion.
 
==== Convertions ====
<code c#>
// Convert from Quaternion to Euler:
Vector3 inEuler = quaternionRotation.eulerAngles;
 
// Convert Euler to Quaternion
Quaternion inQuaternion = Quaternion.Euler(inEuler);
 
// To Angle-Axis
Quaternion randomQuaternion = Random.rotation;
float angle;
Vector3 axis;
 
randomQuaternion.ToAngleAxis(out angle, out axis);
 
// And back
Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle,axis);