("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation point go inside closing quotation marks when the punctuation applies to the quotation itself and outside when it ...

When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end ... Note the order of the punctuation: Quotation mark, citation, and then period. If only part of a quote is needed, it is ...

Sometimes a full stop is used outside of the quotation marks, this is because the full stop belongs to the whole sentence, not the original quotation: In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens the ...