Apa Period Inside Or Outside Quotes

The period is unique among punctuation marks in that yes it always goes inside the quotation marks.

Apa period inside or outside quotes. 92 of the 6th ed. If the quotation includes material already in quotation marks see section 833 of the publication manual. When not to use quotation marks. For example if the sentence is a question but the words in the quote are not the question mark would go outside the quotation marks.

For a block quotation 40 words the closing punctuation appears at the end of the quotation and before the citation apa 2020 p. Luckily when it comes to periods and commas the answer to whether they go inside or outside the quotation mark is much simpler. Place periods and commas within closing single or double quotation marks. As you can see in the examples above when a comma or period comes at the end of a pair of quotation marks it goes inside the marks not outside.

Quotation marks are covered in section 67 of the apa publication manual seventh edition when to use quotation marks in apa style papers use double quotation marks in the following cases. Outside quotation marks place other punctuation inside quotation marks when that punctuation is part of what is being quoted such as a quoted question. For a quotation of 39 words or fewer that ends a sentence place the period after the closing bracket of the citation american psychological association apa 2020 p. Block quotations 40 words or more.

As you might guess from our name apa style uses american style punctuation see p. Use single quotation marks to indicate dialog or quotations within a quotation. However if you are using quotation marks for a special word or phrase not quoting someones writing or speech you can put question marks and exclamation marks outside the quotation. 271 eg that terrible storm last night startled my cat and she hid under the bed for hours liu 2015 p.

Thats always truewhether the quotation appears at the beginning of the sentence in the middle of the sentence or at the very end. If youre using american english they go inside. Place other punctuation marks inside quotation marks only when they are part of the quoted material. 2017 noted that mobile devices enameled employees in many jobs to work anywhere anytime and stay electronically tethered to work outside formal working hours p.

For instance he said im going to the mall however this is not the case for all end punctuation marks.