Sunday, September 17, 2006

Giving Sources and Punctuation

I was wrong again. At this week's workshop I said that when quoting a whole sentence you should put the period inside the closing quotation mark and nothing after the closing bracket of the source. That is only correct in the case of a blockquote.

I was wrong again. At this week's workshop I said that when quoting a whole sentence you should put the period inside the closing quotation mark and nothing after the closing bracket of the source. (Basbøll 2006)
That is a correct citation. "At this week's workshop I said that when quoting a whole sentence you should put the period inside the closing quotation mark and nothing after the closing bracket of the source." (Basbøll 2006) This way of doing it is not correct, however. "At this week's workshop I said that when quoting a whole sentence you should put the period inside the closing quotation mark and nothing after the closing bracket of the source" (Basbøll 2006). That's the way to do it.

This also goes for quotations of several sentences: "I was wrong again. At this week's workshop I said that when quoting a whole sentence you should put the period inside the closing quotation mark and nothing after the closing bracket of the source" (Basbøll 2006).