Quoting in American English

Remember that the way you mark quotations in American English (“ ”) may not be the same as in other languages. In French, for example, quotations are marked with guillemets (« »), while in German, quotations take split-level marks („ ”). American English and British English offer opposite conventions for double and single quotation marks. If you are writing for an American audience, be careful to follow the U.S. conventions governing quotation marks.