Quick Help: Editing for quotation marks

• Use quotation marks around direct quotations and titles of short works.
• 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.
• Use quotation marks to signal irony and invented words, but do so sparingly.
• Never use quotation marks around indirect quotations.
• Do not use quotation marks to add emphasis to words.
• Check other punctuation used with closing quotation marks.
  • 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.