Monday 7th December 2009
The Oxford Guide to English Usage, Appendix I, p. 241
17 notes:2. The closing quotation mark should come before all punctuation marks unless these form part of the quotation itself, e.g. Did Nelson really say ‘Kiss me, Hardy’? but Then she asked, ‘What is your name?’
The comma at the end of a quotation, when words such as he said follow, is regarded as equivalent to the final full stop of the speaker’s utterance, and is kept inside the quotation, e.g. ‘That is nonsense,’ he said. The commas on either side of he said, etc., when these words interrupt the quotation, should be outside the quotation marks, e.g. ‘That’, he said, ‘is nonsense.’ But the first comma goes inside the quotation marks if it would be part of the utterance even if there were no interruption, e.g. ‘That, my dear fellow,’ he said, ‘is nonsense’.
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