The punctuation for integrating academic quotes is a little different than dialogue punctuation. When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end, the period should come ...

Alonzo Delano describes the Sept. 13, 1855, fire that destroyed most of Grass Valley. This quotation is from “Old Block’s Sketch Book,” published in 1856. The reference to “grass widower” is a 19th ...