Whats a double quote (quote within a quote)?
You must double quote when the source you’re quoting is quoting someone else. You put regular quotation marks around the words you quote from the source and single quotation marks around the words your source quotes. Let’s suppose you read the following in an article by Alex Granada: Today’s boy bands are all style and no substance. The formula is this: find a group of handsome kids who can wear baggy clothes, rub their chests, look soulful, and manage a few harmonies and you have what Kelly Green calls “scream-inducing moneymakers.” If you quote some of this, you have several options. If you quote only Green’s words: Some boy bands are, according to Kelly Green, “scream-inducing moneymakers” (qtd. in Granada 56). If you want to quote some of Granada’s words, too: Granada describes current boy bands as “all style . . . what Kelly Green calls ‘scream-inducing moneymakers'” (qtd. in Granada 56). Remember that once you open your regular quotation marks you don’t have to keep closing and o
