QUOTATIONS

1. Quote (i.e., use quotation marks for) the names of books, short stories, plays, songs, television programs, poems, motion pictures and operas; also capitalize the first word and other words in the title. Examples: The entire Presidents Men, The Old Man and the Sea, and Straight from the Shoulder. 2. Do not quote the names of newspapers or yearbooks; the titles of pictures, statues, or other works of art; the names of ships; the names of horses, dogs, or other animals. 3. Repeat the quotation marks at the beginning of each paragraph in a story where a quotation from one person or book runs from one paragraph into the next; do not put quotation marks at the end of the paragraph until the end of the whole quotation is reached. 4. In general, put the comma and the period inside the quotation marks whether the comma or period belongs to the whole sentence or to the part quoted. The comma and the period used to be placed either inside the quotation marks or outside in accordance with the meaning of the sentence. Modern usage has decreed that, regardless of the meaning, these two marks go inside. 5. Place the question mark or the exclamation point inside the quotations if the mark of punctuation belongs to the material included within the quotation marks; if it belongs to the entire sentence rather than to the part quoted, then place the mark outside the quotations. Example: Have you seen The Deer hunter? He asked, Have you been in town? 6. When a semicolon or a colon comes at the end of the quoted matter, the mark of punctuation always goes outside the quotation marks.