quotation marks

Use quotation marks (not italics) around the names of books, lectures, movies, operas, plays, podcasts, podcast episodes, poems, songs, speeches, radio and television programs, videos, and works of art. For Advent, the church released new episodes of the “Prophetic Voices: Preaching and Teaching Beloved Community” podcast. See also titles: composition

Periods and commas always go inside the quotation marks; dashes, semicolons, question marks, and exclamation points go outside unless they apply to the quoted material. Will he show us how to find the place he described as “the world’s most beautiful garden sanctuary”?

Use single quotation marks for quotes within a quote: “Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.’”

Citations after a quote should be in parentheses after the quotation marks with the period following: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life” (John 3:16).

When a quote is being used as an epigraph at the beginning of a work, no quotation marks are needed; use an em dash before the citation: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. —John 3:16  
See also epigraph