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Originally Posted by mrscoach
Harry, I would have gone with the British version of the two "Carefree" examples if given a choice, so I think wiki isn't entirely accurate on this. And since I am currently studying English I feel I know what I am talking about. To me the comma and period go with the sentence, not the quoted material. And that is how we were teaching it last year.
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The references that Wiki gives for the "commas and periods go before the closing quote" rule are:
The Associated Press Stylebook, p. 337; The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition 6.9, pp. 242–243; Strunk, William Jr., and White, E. B. The Elements of Style. Pearson Education Company, 4th edition, p. 36; The Globe and Mail Style Book. McFarlane and Warren Clements, 9th edition, p. 237; Brinck, Tom; Gergle, Darren; Wood, Scott D. Usability for the Web. Morgan Kaufmann, 2002, p. 277; Punctuation, The Chicago Manual of Style Online, accessed February 17, 2010.
so it seems that there is some support for the position. As you rightly say, however, there are different "style rules" that different people apply. I've written numerous articles for scientific journals, and they each have their own stylistic guidelines that one has to follow when submitting an article to that particular journal.