What do you put in the parentheses after a quote?

Include the page number in parentheses at the end of the quotation after the period. If a source does not include page numbers, but does provide explicitly marked paragraph or section numbers, cite these. In these situations, include a comma after the author’s name.

Do you put the quotation marks before or after?

Commas and periods always go inside the quotation marks in American English; dashes, colons, and semicolons almost always go outside the quotation marks; question marks and exclamation marks sometimes go inside, sometimes stay outside.

Do periods go inside parentheses MLA?

In order to avoid plagiarism, it is extremely important that you cite all words and ideas that you got from somewhere else. At the end of the quote put the period after the last word of the sentence followed by the parentheses. **Note that the punctuation for the sentence goes AFTER the parenthesis.

What does a single quotation mean?

one pair of single quotation marks, written as (‘ ‘) and used especially for a quotation within another quotation: He said, “I told you to say ‘Open, sesame’ when you want to enter the mountain.”

Where do we use single inverted commas?

In British English we use single inverted commas for direct speech and double marks to enclose the quote. Example: Mr Smith said, ‘I think it was Sarah who said “It was a mistake” more than once. ‘ In American English you use single quotation marks when direct speech is quoted within another piece of direct speech.