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Topic: placement of period within quotes
| Author | Message |
| PluckyPane | Posted – 12/3/2007 3:59:51 PM | show profile Calling all copyeditors: Periods and commas (I know the colon is the exception) go where in relation to quote marks? I'm arguing this point with my assistant editor who swears the period goes outside the quote. We're AP and based in America. Please help. |
| jkdscribe | Posted – 12/3/2007 4:08:24 PM | show profile Depends on the usage... Can you post the sentence in question? |
| pob | Posted – 12/3/2007 5:35:07 PM | show profile They go inside the quote in the U.S. This is the style the AP has always used. In the U.K., the style is to put the punctuation outside the quote. |
| jkaufman | Posted – 12/3/2007 7:49:29 PM | show profile Definitely inside the quote. |
| ManhattanMatt | Posted – 12/4/2007 12:22:18 AM | show profile OUTSIDE the quote. Otherwise you're quoting the punctuation. |
| Village Gal | Posted – 12/4/2007 8:24:37 AM | show profile the period or comma goes inside. |
| lenagrove | Posted – 12/4/2007 11:27:14 AM | show profile Inside the quote marks. |
| Bee News | Posted – 12/4/2007 11:38:26 AM | show profile inside |
| egaferas | Posted – 12/4/2007 12:07:25 PM | show profile "Quoting the punctuation"???? It definitely goes INSIDE. |
| Thabit | Posted – 12/4/2007 3:46:22 PM | show profile inside Here's the AP style book http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:nkSYbhtMF6YJ:www.bu.edu/com/writingprgm/ap_styleguide1.pdf+AP+style+punctuation+in+quote+marks&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_en|lang_it&client=firefox-a it can be tricky because in British English & foreign languages the punctuation routinely goes outside... hth |
