Question

What is the best way to punctuate the bolded portion of the sentence? Kurt Vonnegut’s book, Welcome to the Monkey House, includes the short story A Long Walk to Forever A Long Walk to Forever. “A Long Walk to Forever”. A Long Walk to Forever “A Long Walk to Forever.”

Answer 1

The correct way to punctuate titles is as follow: for long titles like books, use italics, and for short titles like short stories, use quotation marks. Since in this case the sentence is talking a bout a short story, the correct way to punctuate the sentence is: “A Long Walk to Forever.”

Remember that commas and periods that are part of the original sentence go inside the quotation marks, therefore the last period in the sentence should be put inside the quotation marks.