If you're putting a whole sentence in parentheses, the custom follows logic -- put the period inside the parentheses, not outside it. Thus, for an example from a court case (in a state, California, ...

People sometimes tell me to tell other people what to do, linguistically that is. I’ll get an email saying something like, “It drives me nuts when people say ‘Fruit is a healthy snack’ instead of ...

I just realized that listening to 10000+ references is something I want to avoid and luckily the author only used parentheses for references.<br><br>So anyone know a tool, either for mac or win, that ...

Formulas in Microsoft Excel can contain a wide range of symbols, such as the asterisk (*), the question mark (?), and the "at" (@) sign. Among the most important are parentheses, square brackets, and ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...

Ironically, C&EN’s Oct. 17 issue (which features the cover title “Too Much Plastic?”) contains nomenclature errors on polymeric materials. The first occurs in a letter to the editor titled “Vanilla ...