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The Generalized Stylebook of the Tameri Guide for Writers, which generally promotes AP style, also warns "Do not assume AP style is appropriate for academic writing — it isn't." [24] (Hint: encyclopedia writing is, emphatically, a form of academic writing. And Tameri further propounds "never alter a quote". [25]) Similar flux and conflict is ...
If the quotation is a single word or a sentence fragment, place the terminal punctuation outside the closing quotation mark. When quoting a full sentence, the end of which coincides with the end of the sentence containing it, place terminal punctuation inside the closing quotation mark. Miller wanted, he said, "to create something timeless".
In the United States, most journalistic forms of mass communication rely on styles provided in the Associated Press Stylebook (AP). Corporate publications typically follow either the AP style guide or the equally respected Chicago Manual of Style, often with entries that are additions or exceptions to the chosen style guide.
He cites "logical quotation" and points to our Manual of Style: Quotation as though that is an authority on the subject of punctuating a sentence listing several song titles, as in the sentence he changed. (I wish he had been as interested in content research, but some people mostly care about going in to articles just to change the locations ...
Single quotes are more usual in the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa, though double quotes are also common there, especially in journalistic works [clarification needed]. [14] [15] In New Zealand, both styles are used. [16] [17] A publisher's or author's style may take precedence over regional general preferences.
In UK style, the single quote is used first, and in US style the opposite. These are the most immediately obvious distinctions between the styles. We seem to have agreed to use UK style for articles about UK people or things , and the US for US. see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English DGG 03:03, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
When text is omitted following a sentence, a period (full stop) terminates the sentence, and a subsequent ellipsis indicates one or more omitted sentences before continuing a longer quotation. Business Insider magazine suggests this style [8] and it is also used in many academic journals. The Associated Press Stylebook favors this approach. [9]
This is the Styletips project, which gives useful advice to editors on writing style and formatting in bite-size chunks from the Manual of Style and related pages. For the complete schedule of Styletips, see below. Please place suggestions on the Talk page. The objective is to keep the focus of each tip narrow and to express it simply and briefly.