do punctuation marks go inside quotation marks?
Place other punctuation (colons, semi-colons, question marks, etc.)â¦. Outside quotation marks*. Outside quotation marks*. *Place other punctuation inside quotation marks when that punctuation is part of what is being quoted, such as a quoted question. As you might guess from our name, APA Style uses American style punctuation (see p. 92 of the 6th ed.