# punctuation for quote within quote where punctuation-in-quote="true"

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**Created:** [September 28, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/punctuation-for-quote-within-quote-where-punctuation-in-quote-true/1196 "2013-09-28T20:51:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sebastian\_Karcher](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.citationstyles.org/sebastian_karcher/32/176_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Karcher](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Sebastian_Karcher)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/punctuation-for-quote-within-quote-where-punctuation-in-quote-true/1196/1 "2013-09-28T20:51:00Z")

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Hi everyone  
This only concerns processor maintainers, I’m 99% sure I know what’s right  
here, so I don’t think we need to discuss what’s correct:

Current behavior in citeproc-js when punctuation-in-quote=“true” (as it is  
for all en-US styles)  
is to place periods inside outer quotation marks, but not inside inner  
quotation

I.e. we get (in MLA style on an en-US locale)

Gasché, Rodolphe. “… And the Beautiful? Revisiting Edmund Burke’s ‘Double  
Aesthetics’.” The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Timothy M.  
Costelloe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. Print.

Where it should be:  
Gasché, Rodolphe. “… And the Beautiful? Revisiting Edmund Burke’s ‘Double  
Aesthetics.’” The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Timothy M.  
Costelloe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. Print.

(note the end of the title - ’.” vs. .’”)

Every style guide for American English agrees the latter is correct, see  
e.g.  
APA:  
[http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html](http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html)  
Chicago Manual 6.11  
[http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch06/ch06\_sec011.html](http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch06/ch06_sec011.html) (gated)  
and Owl  
[https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/02/](https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/02/)

Frank - could you fix this? The other citeproc maintainers should make sure  
this is correct in their implementations.–  
Sebastian Karcher  
Ph.D. Candidate  
Department of Political Science  
Northwestern University