For example, fenixpollo said "I'm happy to help you. For example, "I'm very happy to help you. What do you think is better? Do you mean quotation marks when you say commas? You could write a very long quote with a smaller font and a larger indentation. Filis is right: let's get our terms straight. These marks " " are called quotation marks in English. I agree with FC that a long quote -- one paragraph or more -- can be indented and separated from the rest of the text.
You are right, I meant quotation marks, you've been very helpful! Hello: When you are quoting another source, anything longer than four lines should be equally indented on both sides so that it looks like this This is an example of a long quoted text.
According to popular style guides, quotes of longer than four lines need to be indented on both sides to set the quoted material apart from the rest of the text. I remember hating to use this style in my college term papers because the quoted material was always single-spaced used less space that the double-spaced text of the paper.
I never seemed to have enough to say to fill the minimum number of pages. Hello kimmike, it does indeed! However, we did find the following items, which may be helpful:. That could apply to record of survey. The effect is similar to that of highlighting the term through italics … Most often quotation marks should be used only at the first occurrence of the word or phrase in a work; thereafter it may be considered to be fully assimilated.
For convenience, the words are printed in the booklet. I can not find a rule for quotation marks enclosing the whole pledge, the whole creed, or the whole song. Thank you for any assistance you can give me. Options include using a block indent, enclosing the quotes in quotation marks, and italicizing. We recommend choosing a style and being consistent.
Would I use quotation marks on everything that she says while she is telling the story? Or would I stop once the story got going? On one hand she is telling of her thoughts and feelings but on the other is seems a little much to have so many quotation marks.
Our blog Internal Dialogue: Italics or Quotes gives more information about internal dialogue thoughts. You may use quotation marks or italics without quotation marks for direct internal dialogue. How does one use quotation marks when quoting something that contains a list? For example, where do the quotation marks go if I want to quote this? There are different schools of thought about years and decades.
It might be best to place the quote in paragraph form instead of a vertical list. It was then said that I used them incorrectly. I was wondering if you could tell me if I used it correctly? Therefore, your use of quotation marks is acceptable. You could also have placed the words friend and girlfriend in italics. What about underlining? If my fifth grade students are writing short stories, would they underline their work since they are writing them by hand?
What about a list as in an order of service where there are song titles, Sermon titles, and general actions. Song titles and sermon titles are enclosed in quotation marks. No italics or quotation marks are needed for general actions. Yes, the quotation marks should be used again. Since the word church might not be considered an unfamiliar or technical term, it could also be italicized instead of enclosed in quotation marks. I am editing a non-fiction, scientific type book, which includes many terms that I would could consider to be new, proprietary terms.
I have been trying to figure out whether to use quotation marks or italics since the author, being an ESL speaker, does not maintain consistent form. I see from the above conversations that if I use quotation marks, that I could technically drop them after the initial introduction of the term.
However, as I get deeper into the book and having maintained that policy, I have come to a section that has applied italics rather than quotation marks for technical terms. Also, the technical term that is using quotation marks goes on to have lengthy explanations which use the term repeatedly, to define and to then to give examples of its applications.
My first reaction would be to use quotation marks on the initial use and then italicize the following placements within the initial paragraph, and then to drop the usage in the following text, as it should be assimilated and understood by then. I believe that this is how I have seen textbooks in the past use this technique. Can you give me some clarity? We recommend that you choose a method of writing the proprietary terms and remain consistent throughout the book. Please see our August 24, , reply to Nori K.
These words were not spoken exactly like that by Ann so they are not a precise quote, but I feel they need highlighting somehow. A colon is not necessary. While there are no established rules on this, we follow the practice of making links out of the website addresses for the convenience of the reader.
Since links are automatically underlined, we leave it at that. When we wish to give special emphasis to the link, we will make it bold. The subject line in an email does not allow italics, and using quotation marks in the subject of an email could result in the email being marked as spam.
How does that work? Quotation marks? Although there is no formal rule that applies specifically to email subjects, we recommend using quotation marks rather than italics. Single quotation marks are fine if it is a quotation within a quotation. An error here. Quotation marks are for just that — quotations! So, an extract from a book or poem.
Title marks for want of a better phrase are used for, e. As in this comment box! There are other uses for quotation marks besides quotations. Quotation marks are used for components, such as chapter titles in a book, individual episodes of a TV series, songs from a Broadway show or a music album, titles of articles or essays in print or online, and shorter works such as short stories and poems. We do not recommend the use of single quotation marks when italics are not available.
Quotation Marks? Ex- I am going to see Encore!. Period follows it? Are you going to Encore!? Question mark follows it??? These belong to Encore! Asked 4 years, 7 months ago. Active 4 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 8k times. Improve this question. Michaela J Michaela J 1 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. The presentation of a quotation is largely a matter of style; the way to indicate editorial modifications to it will similarly vary. You should adhere to the discipline of your editor, publication, or organization, or in the absence of a house style, observe the guidance of your preferred style manual.
Hi what about names of buildings, but I have made up the names. This is for a building project brochure. These names are used many times throughout the brochure. Italics, quotes? Or quote it once and then every other time just plain caps? Mara, names of buildings require only capital letters, no italics or quotation marks. None of the top-gun style guide address these.
What is the technically correct capitalization rule for each, please? If not, how would you punctuate this exact sentence? A Happy Anniversary to the both of you. Happy Birthday, Michael! Have a Happy Birthday, Michael! Names of holidays religious and secular are capitalized. The words happy, merry, birthday, and anniversary are not capped in running text although we often capitalize such words in headings.
Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. But—I hope the new year is a happy one for you. I hope you have a great new year. No caps here. This is referring to the year, not to the holiday. I guess this calls for a full article. Thanks for the tip. This blog of yours is just unbelievably great!
Am I dreaming?? This site is better than the top style guides, and I mean that. Great, great work. You should be very proud!!! Thanks so much for this post, I am currently studying for a Graduate Certificate in Editing and Publishing and found this immensely helpful! You said in your post that for songs, the CD or album title would be in italics and the song names would be in quotation marks. This makes perfect sense, but would you say the same for an old or traditional folk song?
Would you say that the quotations marks are correct here? Should they be italicised instead? Erin, stay with quotation marks for songs, even folk songs. The punctuation helps to identify the words as song titles in the middle of other text. Could this work, or is it a no-no? PS This is the greatest reference source available anywhere on the Net or in any bookstore!
You are to be commended! Awesome, awesome, awesome site! But there are already allowances, so why not include this one? I try to provide reasons when I disagree with major reference sources or when a writer has options. So if I were to use PS, is there any punctuation i. PS Keep up the great work! PS: Keep up the great work! Keep up the great work! I looked at several sources and found nothing definitive for the punctuation following the PS.
A period or a colon should be acceptable. And both options were given as options from the Gregg Reference Manual in one resource I found. Text, text, text in their answers. Admittedly, those answers may be older, from the days before P. But you should be fine with the period or the colon following PS. Or you could revert to P. For italics i , bold b , or underline u , bracket your text as follows, omitting the space after the first bracket of each pair—.
If you had to italicize the place names, as I did here, italicize the word the in names that capitalize the the. My latest thought is that Chicago 7. It says that proper nouns used as words are usually set in roman as opposed to words used as words, which are italicized or enclosed in quotation marks.
What do you think? Maybe quotation marks if the wording was different, if the sentence included said or write. Like you, I go back and forth with the options. But sometimes the rest of the sentence guides the choice. Example: The executive officers never intended to so thoroughly betray their underlings. Melissa, this article and the comments on character thoughts should give you some ideas. Do italicize the names of specific Disney attractions?
A great question, Brianna. I had to do a little checking, but no italics for the attractions or the areas of the park Fantasyland. Just capitalize the names of the attractions. If you refer to a movie or book title on which a ride is based, be sure to use italics for the movie or book reference.
Nicky, definitely capitalize them, both the names of the shows and the names of the episodes. Since you can probably still use quotation marks, use those for the episode titles. You might have to go with only caps for the show titles. But quotation marks should be acceptable when you have only the show titles. No quotation marks or italics are necessary for either. Is the scouring of scones a known historical event in your story world or is this wording just a casual way some characters refer to the event?
CMOS 16 8. You may simply have to make a decision. But not all big events are capitalized. If the event was written the Great Scone Scourge? You might want to cap that. We do, after all, capitalize the Black Death. Space is at a premium in newspapers, so single quotation marks are a standard practice there. But either would work and be acceptable. You actually have options here. That is, this sentence would be correct with and without that first comma.
Comma use depends on the intended meaning. I see asking me to take her son as a nonessential phrase. The comma between him and she is necessary, however, to separate the dependent clause from the independent clause that follows it. Your example is closer to examples in CMOS that show run-in quotations section CMOS calls similar constructions a syntactical part of the sentence.
As for the capital letter, CH shows a capital letter in their example. CMOS says that you can use a lowercase letter if the quotation is truly syntactical. Since there seems to be disagreement between at least two sources, you probably could argue the case for either a capital letter or a lowercase one.
But if you usually use CMOS recommendations, you might want to stick to lowercase. As for the quotation marks themselves, since it is a quote, use them.
We can use italics for words used as words, so italics is an option. And I think that argument could be made. Oh, thank you so much! The more I searched, the more confused I became!
You explained it so well, I actually understood your answer! Again, thank you! The name of the app is Think Dirty. I have a question about ellipses in the middle of a sentence like this:.
I put on one of those damn hats again, too worried about the drugs she took and who gave them to her. Is an ellipsis the proper punctuation in that example? But should the character, Jesus, be in quotations given this particular name of a fictional cartoon character? I have a question for you. And though the lawyer is the one physically reading it to the niece I want the readers to get a sense of the aunt. Like what they do in movies.
When you see someone reading a letter or something from someone and instead of the readers voice, we hear the writers voice? Am i making sense? If I am including segments of newspaper articles or segments of legal documents in my genealogical research writing, do I, or can I, italicize it and set it off in the center of the page for clarity or emphasis?
Can you confirm this on your end? No recasts, please. Thank you for any help. The letter of the law makes for some pretty poor options for a few of these words.
And of course, no italics needed with the use of the quotation marks. This is in CMOS 7. CMOS shows no italics for their example, just the plural phrase in quotation marks.
Except, of course, if the whole word, the plural version, is in italics. Aside from Chicago, I think these could work they are much clearer.
The standard way to make plurals adding s or es works well. The apostrophe would likely cause too much confusion. I agree with CMOS 7. Hi, Beth. Would this be correct, or should I keep it all in roman?
Yet yours seems a straightforward conversation. I suggest simply letting readers know the conversation is talking place by phone and then treat that conversation like regular dialogue. Whether characters are face to face, in different rooms of a house, or talking by phone, if the reader gets to hear everything, this is normal dialogue.
Is the punctuation correct as is, and if I wanted to get rid of the em dashes, could I still use a question in the middle of the sentence? Cassie, the question inside the dashes works well. But for fiction, stick with the dashes. Hi, thanks for this informative article. I have a question about signs.
Jared, the Chicago Manual of Style recommends headline style for signs in running text—no quotation marks or italics. So that means capitalize first and last words and almost all words except for conjunctions, prepositions, and articles. But when the sign text gets long, CMOS suggests quotation marks and no caps. For your example, keep it as is—capitalizing the three words.
What a rich resource you have provided us with, Beth Hill! I am having difficulty finding an answer to a specific question. Foreign language organization names: to italicize or not? In the work I am currently editing, the writer sometimes refers to a Spanish organization name, and often but not always she also provides the English translation or actual English version, when there is one in use.
My tendency is to start with the English and put the Spanish version next to it in brackets, italicised, and, if I only have the Spanish version, to simply italicize it. Am I on the right track? Many thanks if you can help me! It is confounding because all nouns are names of things. Capitalize proper nouns, not common nouns. So Fido proper noun is capitalized, but dog common noun is not.
Titles are covered under proper nouns: Aunt Margaret title of a specific person and proper noun is capitalized, but my aunt common noun is not; my aunt Margaret gets a mix of capitalization. Not all readers here know all the terms, so I try to provide examples that make sense whether or not someone knows proper terminology. That is what I was trying to stress with my examples. For example:.
In witting, when you say, I gave him a look that said, you wanna bet? Would you use quotations or italicize? Online News Publish. What punctuation are you worried about?
Thank you Beth. To have it all collected is very helpful. Hi Beth. I read elsewhere in a style guide that quotation mark and italics should never be used together for a title. But I have a dilema. How should I handle this? Do I supplant one rule in favor of the other? And if so, which one? Thanks for your input. Go with the quotation marks, no italics. Let the quotation marks do the work.
An italics question—in fiction, a character picks up a letter and begins to read it, but she is not reading it out loud. Does the text of the letter go in italics? I was asked to comment on a document which contained this phrase quotation marks deliberately left out for clarity here :.
The single quotation marks seem wrong to me. This post was very helpful. Thanks for the refresher. This post is amazing! What do you think of using all-caps for the words you want to emphasize? Not recommended? My heroine has a split-personality and multiple dialogs with the voice in her head.
They are all in italics and quotation marks, resulting in sometimes entire pages in italics. Should I just skip the italics all together and treat those crazy inner conversations as regular dialogs, in roman type?
I hope you still have patience to reply to comments on this 2,5-year-old post. This post is really good. My book starts from a writings of a journal and later it quickly gets to the scene where the writer of that journal is distracted by something.
How do I separate the scene and the words of journal? Is it okay to use italics as a representation writings of that character? Please reply. I have encountered an entire line quoted in foreign words in a written short story that I am trying to proofread.
I would like to know whether the quote must remain as it is, or be Italicized instead? I would greatly appreciate if you d reply. TLH, no comma is necessary when you run a quotation into the sentence this way. So if you use the quotation marks, no comma. But a single word—and a title, at that—makes the situation different. Or you could rewrite. Hi Beth, Thank you so much for all your work! I refer to it a lot and there is so much in here that I have to keep coming back — maybe you could condense some of the Comment questions into an addendum article to make it easier to access this great content that comes out here?
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge and for being so patient! I am currently editing a book that has characters frequently remembering things someone told them. Do I put them in quotation marks, italics, recast them not as verbatim, or what? Could you please weigh in on the following: Katherine says: January 15, at pm Hi! Have you ever thought about publishing an ebook or guest authoring on other blogs? I know my subscribers would value your work. If you are even remotely interested, feel free to shoot me an email.
Thank you for a very useful blogpost. I have a question however not covered here, regarding the use of quoting radio broadcasts, both fictional and real, in my novel.
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