Source Field formatting. Commas, Quotes.

[ted_au]

I have the source field format for Title (Gedcom tag TITL) with the option selected to Put quotes around the field.

In the source preview, the Comma used to seperate fields is shown as INSIDE the quotation marks. Shouldn't it be outside it?

Currently shown:
164. Springvale Botanical Cemetery,

[Paul Luning]

Re: Source Field formatting. Commas, Quotes.

My understanding is that commas and periods always go inside quote marks in American usage, and outside in British usage. No idea how the rest of the world deals with them.
Paul

[ted_au]

Re: Source Field formatting. Commas, Quotes.

My understanding is that commas and periods always go inside quote marks in American usage, and outside in British usage.
Paul

We follow British usage here in Australia - hence my question. Outside quote marks is what I normally see in all references.

[Donald W. Moore]

Re: Source Field formatting. Commas, Quotes.

I would go with whatever the Chicago Manual of Style suggests.

[Derrick]

Re: Source Field formatting. Commas, Quotes.

This actually doesn't depend on a specific style in the U.S. (Chicago, MLA, or whatever). Standard American usage is that commas and periods always go inside quotation marks; all other marks of punctuation go outside of them, unless there's a situation where you would quote the mark (this only happens with a question mark or exclamation point). I teach this, and this rule doesn't appear in the parts of student style guides that are specifically about Chicago (though I see that the big Chicago Manual 15th ed discusses this at sections 6.8-6.10).

In other English speaking countries, according to Chicago, the usage is that "only those punctuation points that appeared in the original material should be included within the quotation marks; all others follow the closing quotation marks" (6.10).

Another difference, btw, is that this usage of single vs. double quotation marks is reversed in other English-speaking countries. So, a quote inside of a quote 'would appear "like this" in England'.

And all of this is true in the text as well as with a list of Works Cited. This is a generic pattern for books and research writing. Newspapers, for instance, can vary from this.

[Paul Luning]

Re: Source Field formatting. Commas, Quotes.

I haven't been able to find a British/American box to check in Preferences, so maybe that is a Wish List candidate.
Paul