Rules for Placement of Puncuation Marks with Quotations Periods and commas are always placed inside quotation marks. Ex: In "The Lottery," Tessie Hutchinson protests, "It isn't fair." Exception: In ...

Do not place in quotation marks: names of newspapers, magazines, central texts of a religion (Bible, Koran), dictionaries, handbooks and reference books. Names of concertos, operas, overtures, sonatas ...