Quick Help: Editing for quotation marks

• Use quotation marks around direct quotations and titles of short works. (58a and b)
• Do not use quotation marks around set-off quotations of more than four lines of prose or three lines of poetry or around titles of long works. (58a and b)
• Use quotation marks to signal irony and invented words, but do so sparingly. (58c)
• Never use quotation marks around indirect quotations. (58d)
• Do not use quotation marks to add emphasis to words. (58d)
• Check other punctuation used with closing quotation marks. (58e)

  Periods and commas should be inside the quotation marks.

  Colons, semicolons, and footnote numbers should be outside.

  Question marks, exclamation points, and dashes should be inside if they are part of the quoted material, outside if they are not.