Quotation marks may also be used to call attention to individual words or phrases.
Periods go inside the closing set of quotation marks unless a source is cited.
Commas are used inside the closing set of quotation marks to punctuate your sentence. Semicolons and colons go outside the closing set of quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation points can go either inside or outside the quotation marks. Place them inside the marks if they belong to the quote. Place them outside the marks if they do not belong to the quote.