Are periods and commas placed inside or outside of quotation marks?
To answer that and other questions about quotation marks, let’s review the following six rules for quotation marks: Quotation marks are used in pairs to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation. • Use quotation marks to enclose titles of short works (articles, speeches). Italicize or underline titles of books, magazines, and newspapers. Example: Focus recently published an article entitled “Increasing Efficiency of Part-time Employees.” • Use quotation marks to enclose words taken from special vocabularies or used in a special sense. (Or you may use italics.) Example: A full-time “equivalent employee” provides 1,704 working hours per year. • Use quotation marks to enclose quotations short enough to work into your own text (three lines or fewer). Example: In his article, Michael J. Brooks suggests that “what the writer is trying to do is not only to communicate with the reader but also to influence his or her behavior.” • Indent quotations of more than three lines. If a passage of
