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 Print names of all kinds of boats or ships, and titles of paintings and of sculpture, in plain roman type without quotes.

Poetical Extracts. The quotation marks should be ranged outside the capitals where the width of the page will allow it without turning over lines. In quoting poetical extracts of more than one stanza, the opening quotation marks should be used at the beginning of each stanza, the closing marks only at the end of the extract.

In sentences terminating in the close of a quotation and an exclamation point or an interrogation point, do not quote the punctuation mark unless it is part of the quotation:—


 * How absurd to call this stripling a “man”!

But
 * He cried out, “Wake up! something is going wrong!”
 * Can we by any mistake call him a “man”?

But
 * One is crazed by his “Now, then, where am I to go?”

Quotation marks should always include ellipses; also etc., when it otherwise would not be clear that etc. stands for an omitted part of the matter quoted.

Do not quote prose extracts set in a smaller type than the text or in italics.

Do not quote complete letters, having the date, address, and signature, unless especially directed.

Do not use quotation marks, or an apostrophe to show a contracted form, before a display initial letter at the beginning of a chapter.

Parentheses

Inclose in parentheses figures or letters used to mark divisions of a subject discussed in the text.

In text matter, if, following a direct quotation, the reference is given to the author, title of work, or both, inclose in parentheses. If the quotation is but a single sentence or phrase, join the parenthetical credit closely without other mark of punctuation; if the quotation consists of two or more sentences, punctuation mark should end the quotation. In the latter case, a period should follow the credit given to the source of the quotation inside the closing parenthesis. For example:—

“Birmingham had not been thought of sufficient importance