Place the period outside the quotation marks if a parenthetical citation appears after a direct quotation. Example: Their focus on writing as a discipline can be linked with Faigley's (1986) belief ...

British punctuation sometimes requires you to put the period or comma after the quotation mark. American punctuation rules require a period or comma come before a closing quote mark in every ...

Note the order of the punctuation: Quotation mark, citation, and then period. If only part of a quote is needed, it is possible to omit information and replace it with ellipses. Ellipses (. . .) are ...

Most often, commas and periods go within the quotation marks ... If the sentence containing the dialogue is a question, then the question mark goes outside of the quotation marks.