Quotes Before Or After The Period

The american style was developed based on typography.

Quotes before or after the period. A m etc vol inc jr mrs tex and to omit periods with most uppercase abbreviations examples. In a town outside brisbane i saw tourists go home written on a wall. Block quotes are long quotes that are separated from the surrounding text. 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.

The convention goes back at least to the nineteenth. The placement of a comma or period after a quotation by eric wirth. But then someone told me pay it no mind lad note that the period goes inside both the single and double quotation marks. Note however that many scientific and technical abbreviations are.

In all other situations the period comes inside the closing quotation marks. See the examples in strunk white p. Period with parentheses or brackets. 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.

Commas or periods always precede closing quotation marks of quoted material two examples. Usually they appear as a separate paragraph or series of paragraphs with a different font a change in the line spacing or a wider margin. Use single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. 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.

In america this topic is not subject to debate. The current style is to use periods with most lowercase and mixed case abbreviations examples. When setting up type requiring the period to precede the quotation marks allowed better kerning. In any case block quotes don t need quotation marks to set them off from the remaining text even though they are direct quotes.

Vertical enumerated lists next. Period marks go before the. Period marks go before the. The reason for this convention is to improve the appearance of the text.

In american style the period always comes before the closing quotation marks. And some said neither yes nor no 2 some people call themselves democrats. 1 he said no. Quotations can bring your writing to life the reader imagines someone saying the words but quotations are also vexing to format.

In the british style the placement of the period depends upon whether the period is logically part of the quoted material. Fbi irs atm nato nbc tx.