Punctuation With Quotes And Citations

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Punctuation with quotes and citations. If the citation appears at the end of a sentence put the end punctuation after the closing parenthesis for the citation. Three rules are described below. If the quotation includes material already in quotation marks see section 8 33 of the publication manual. Punctuation with quotations gives many people problems.

92 of the 6th ed. Also make sure that you place quotation marks correctly with respect to other punctuation marks and with citations. If a citation in parentheses follows the quotation the period follows. Place other punctuation inside quotation marks when that punctuation is part of what is being quoted such as a quoted question.

As waley observes blah blah blah blah 42. Quotation marks are used for components such as chapter titles in a book individual episodes of a tv series songs from a broadway show or a music album titles of articles or essays in print or online and shorter works such as short stories and poems. Publication manual as do several other major style guides such as ap chicago and mla the table below elaborates with examples for each punctuation mark. The punctuation goes after the citation with short parenthetical citations.

Published on october 5 2016 by sarah vinz. It may be worth a post on its own but in essence for inline quotations it s really not necessary to use extra markup nor styling for that markup as with quotes use actual quotation marks you can do it yes but it s not worth the effort. If the quotation includes citations see section 8 32 of the publication manual. Want to learn about using quotation marks when citing information.

When the speaker tag comes first put a comma. If you are using the apa style make sure you always follow rule 2. As you might guess from our name apa style uses american style punctuation see p. However with parenthetical citation punctuation comes after the parenthetical citation rather than being enclosed by the quotation marks.

The final period or comma goes inside the quotation marks even if it is not a part of the quoted material unless the quotation is followed by a citation. The answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no. Though not necessarily logical the american rules for multiple punctuation with quotation marks are firmly established. Should i put punctuation after quotation marks.

Here you look at the proper punctuation for statements in quotations with and without speaker tags. See here for a brief explanation of the british style commas and periods that are part of the overall sentence go inside the quotation marks even though they aren t part of the original quotation. The threads were examples they re probably hard to parse and there are probably more interesting ones. Notice where the period goes in the following examples.