Original: This style of punctuation is common in the U.S. and Canada . The other standard styleâ '' called British style or logical punctuationâ '' is to include within quotation marks only those punctuation marks that appeared in the quoted material , but otherwise to place punctuation outside the closing quotation marks .
Simplified: The other standard style -- called British style or logical punctuation -- is to include within quotation marks only those punctuation marks that appeared in the quoted material , but otherwise to place punctuation outside the closing quotation marks .