Grammar, Punctuation and Capitalization - Handbook for Technical ...

Chapter 3. Punctuation Page 68• A period precedes decimal numbers:0.2 .68 29.32• A period separates dollars and cents:$6.50 but 50 cents• In enumerations, a period usually follows the number or other designator:Volume I. TheoryFigure 2. Response times.The options are1.2.3.Optical rectificationLaser-driven magnetohydrodynamicsLaser photovoltaics• Periods are used in section numbers1.IntroductionThis subject is discussed in section I.A.1 of reference 3 and in section 5.2 of this paper.3.11.3. Use With Other MarksA period may be used only with quotation marks, parentheses and brackets, and points of ellipsis, but not withother marks unless the period marks an abbreviation:(In this fig., the dots denote dots)(e.g., decimal numbers)(Why include the following three pp.?)But a period is never repeated after an abbreviation:I prefer the abbreviation Ms.• Place periods before closing quotation marks.The operator presses the letter n to indicate "no" and the letter y to indicate "yes."The word pultruded is defined to mean the opposite of "extruded."• Generally periods are placed outside closing parentheses; place the period inside only when a completeparenthetical sentence does not stand within another sentence (see section parens):(Parenthesized sentences, like this one, that do not stand within other sentences have a period