1) Use quotation marks when quoting someone directly.
Ex: Jane said, “I will meet you for lunch.”
2) Use quotation marks around the titles of articles, poems, short stories, songs, and TV shows. The larger works are italicized.
Ex: Richard Burton performed the song “Camelot” in the 1960 Broadway musical Camelot.
3) In American English, periods and commas ALWAYS go inside quotation marks.
Ex: My favorite poem is “The Road Not Taken.”
4) Always capitalize the first word in a complete quotation, even in the middle of a sentence.
Ex: John announced, “The car did not move during the traffic jam.”
5) Use quotation marks when referring to a word as a word, such as with technical language.
Ex: It’s an oil-extraction method known as “fracking.”
6) Use single quotation marks for quotations within quotations.
Ex: Matthew said, “My favorite poem is ‘The Road Not Taken,’ by Robert Frost.”
