1. Single quotation marks are used for a first quotation; double for a quotation within this; single again for a further quotation inside that.

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.'

3. Quotation marks (and roman type) are used when citing titles of articles in magazines, chapters of books, poems not published separately, and songs.

• Not for titles of books of the Bible; nor for any passage that represents only the substance of an extract, or has any grammatical alterations, and is not a verbatim quotation.

Titles of books and magazines are usually printed in italic.