Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation point go inside ...

Participants responded that the use of periods at the end of sentences in texts made the overall message seem "less sincere" than when no punctuation was used at all. However, punctuation did not ...

The punctuation for integrating academic quotes is a little different than dialogue punctuation. When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end, the period should come ...