General Rules on the Use of Quotation Marks 'Also, please do not forget to put the book or art work titles in italics,' LEA writes in his book Punctuation is Important.

'Please put the comma before the quotation mark if you are not finishing your sentence with that particular quote,' said LEA. 'If you are quoting, please put a full stop before the quotation mark and then put a space and the footnote number.' Please put a full stop at the end of the sentence, add a space, and then put the footnote number.

LEA uses double quotations marks (also called double inverted commas) when directly quoting a source and single quotation marks (also called single inverted commas) when stressing a particular meaning of a word or phrase.Ĭhicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.ĭouble inverted commas are used for quoting.Īt the end of a sentence, there is a space between the punctuation mark and the reference number. 'Colons and semicolons-unlike periods and commas-follow closing quotation marks question marks and exclamation points follow closing quotation marks unless they belong within the quoted matter' (p. For the traditional style, Chicago says 'Periods and commas precede closing quotation marks, whether double or single' (p.

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