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12 Sep 2003 06:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenedear authors:
the punctuation goes INSIDE the quotation marks in almost all instances.
punctuation marks that always go inside: period, comma.
punctuation marks that always go outside: colon, semi-colon.
punctuation marks that vary: question mark, exclamation point. (these go inside a quotation mark only if the quotation is a question or exclamation, respectively.)
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cim
the punctuation goes INSIDE the quotation marks in almost all instances.
punctuation marks that always go inside: period, comma.
punctuation marks that always go outside: colon, semi-colon.
punctuation marks that vary: question mark, exclamation point. (these go inside a quotation mark only if the quotation is a question or exclamation, respectively.)
love,
cim
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Date: 12 Sep 2003 05:33 am (UTC)I work for a publisher and we regularly have epic battles between authors and our copyeditors on this subject.
We had one author of a math paper so insistent that periods should go outside the quotes, that he wanted an author's note that stated "the publisher's copyeditors have removed all meaning from this paper. If you wish to see the original version, please go to [url]".
We have recently been given dispensation to allow authors to follow their style of choice, provided they are consistent.
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Date: 12 Sep 2003 05:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12 Sep 2003 07:02 am (UTC)see me saying that -
"We do?"
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Date: 12 Sep 2003 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 12 Sep 2003 07:56 am (UTC)Thank you very much for that. :) I had not known.
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Date: 12 Sep 2003 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12 Sep 2003 09:45 am (UTC)But it drives my betas crazy and making them happy is more important than logic. So I switched back.
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