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Snuppelina Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Quotation marks

Hi there!
Could anyone please tell me whether you, native speakers, use quotation marks with names of magazines/journals.
I know that you don't, but someone is trying to prove to me that I have to use guillemets (French quotation marks) in English texts.

The question is the following: there is a title page of a preprint, which is sent to another journal, and there is a phrase at the bottom of the title page:

Submitted to "Journal of Biological Investigation" (quotation marks are
guillemets, but I don't know how to write them here on the forum).
Could anyone comment on this? Thanks.
  

Top answer

The first choice is italics. It that's not an option, then quotation marks are far preferable to nothing.

— BarbaraPA

  • The first choice is italics.
  • It that's not an option, then quotation marks are far preferable to nothing.
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The first choice is italics. It that's not an option, then quotation marks are far preferable to nothing.
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Thanks!

But I heard that in English texts, quotation marks are used only with names of articles, poems, etc, not magazines/journals.
Is it still possible to use quotation marks with names of journals?

Is it a very serious mistake to use the french quotation marks in English texts?
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Is underlining an option? Underlines used to be used before italics for the names of publications. Underline the magazine name, put quotation marks around the article name. I was guessing that without italics, underlining wasn't possible either, but that might not be so.

I don't know how French quotations marks differ in appearance from English ones, but I would guess they would not raise
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Grammar Geek… I would guess they would not raise too many eyebrows.
«Journal of Biological Investigation»

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If that's what the keyboard has, that's what the keyboard has. It's preferable to nothing.
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snuppelinaI know that you don't, but someone is trying to prove to me that I have to use guillemets (French quotation marks) in English texts.
This is false.
snuppelinaBut I heard that in English texts, quotation marks are used only with names of articles, poems, etc, not magazines/journals.
True.
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Do not use French punctuation in English.
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