Period Before Or After Quotes Citation

Period with parentheses or brackets.

Period before or after quotes citation. In the british style the placement of the period depends upon whether the period is logically part of the quoted material. Studies have shown that more and more teachers are changing careers after their first year of teaching. Please note that with quotes longer than 40 words the quoted text which should not be put in quotation marks should end with a punctuation mark. The citation then follows without a period.

If a superscript footnote number is used it follows the period and the quotation marks. Vertical enumerated lists next. When a comma or period is needed after a quotation publishers in the united states typically put the punctuation mark before the closing quotation mark. The convention goes back at least to the nineteenth.

Period marks go before the. And some said neither yes nor no 2 some people call themselves democrats. Receive feedback on language structure and layout. In all other situations the period comes inside the closing quotation marks.

As with all citations in mla format authors may be incorporated into the citation s introduction or included in parentheses after the citation. The mla handbook notes by convention commas and periods that directly follow quotations go inside the closing quotation marks 88. The reason for this convention is to improve the appearance of the text. 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.

If a citation in parentheses follows the quotation the period follows the citation. You ve got to be carefully taught wrote oscar hammerstein ii. Commas or periods always precede closing quotation marks of quoted material two examples. Put the period after the citation.

Either a cite the source in parentheses after the quotation s final punctuation or b cite the author and year in the narrative before the quotation and place only the page number in parentheses after the quotation s final punctuation. Julio cortázar wrote many short stories including la noche boca arriba. When setting up type requiring the period to precede the quotation marks allowed better kerning. After the quotation marks because if put before the quotation mark that makes the quote seem like if it continues after what you wrote even if the quote has ended.

In america this topic is not subject to debate. Do not add a period after the closing parenthesis in either case. 1 he said no. Posamentier jaye and krulik 55.

The placement of a comma or period after a quotation by eric wirth. The american style was developed based on typography. 1 there are no ifs ands or buts about it 2 he said yes and she said no colons and semicolons always follow closing quotation marks of quoted material two examples. See the examples in strunk white p.