A few years ago while copy editing an article, I was shocked to see something like this: “I lecture my sales staff about what I call ‘me syndrome,’” Jones said. What shocked me was the punctuation.

When a quote with citation ends a sentence, the period should go after the citation because the citation belongs to that sentence. Example: In “Synthetic Biology–Putting Engineering into Biology,” ...

The trouble with being a former typesetter is that every day online is a new adventure in torture. Take the shape of quotation marks. These humble symbols are a dagger in my eye when a straight, or ...