House Style Guide 2011 - MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica"

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The singly charged complexes—which constituted bands 1 and 3—liberated maleate anion upon
decomposition.
Correct
The singly charged complexes, which constituted bands 1 and 3, liberated maleate anion upon decomposition.
3.12 Quotation Marks
3.12.1 Quotation marks should be used for new words, words used in a new sense (such as technical
terms used in a nonstandard sense), or words not used literally. Generally, use quotation marks only
the first time the word appears in the text. Occasionally, it may be necessary to repeat the quotation
marks throughout the text. Russian authors tend to use this punctuation more than Americans; you
should discuss specific cases with the scientific editor and try to minimize the use of this awkward
construction.
Plastocyanin is a soluble “blue” copper protein.
The integrated intensity of each diagonal in the spectrum is proportional to a “mixing coefficient.”
3.12.2 Use quotation marks to enclose short direct quotations.
In the book Megatrends, Naisbitt concludes that “We are moving from the specialist who is soon obsolete to
the generalist who can adapt.”
3.12.3 At the first stage, longer quotations (extracts) of 50 words or more should be enclosed in
braces and marked before and after with @ to indicate that they should be indented.
The American physicist Richard Feynman has already made this argument in his book How Atoms Affect You:
@{Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology,
for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do
that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of
physics.}@
3.12.4 In text, use quotation marks to enclose titles of poems, short stories, articles, lectures and
papers read at meetings, dissertations and theses, manuscripts in collections, chapters of books, short
musical compositions, and radio and TV programs (see also 3.17.2; References). Do not use
quotation marks for names of laws, resolutions, and decrees (see also 4.3).
3.12.5 The official title of a conference is not enclosed in quotation marks:
4th International Conference on Fluidization
However, a substantive title given to a conference is enclosed in quotation marks:
“Dynamics of Heavy-Ion Collisions,” an international symposium on nuclear physics
3.12.6. The period and comma always fall within quotation marks (unlike in Russian). The colon and
semicolon always fall outside quotation marks.
3.12.7 The following changes to direct quotations are permissible if necessary to ensure that a
quoted passage fits smoothly into the text: (1) the initial letter may be changed to a capital or
lowercase letter; (2) the final punctuation mark may be changed, and punctuation marks may be
omitted where ellipsis points are used.
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