Template:Help:Periods and commas

• Place a full stop (a period) or a comma before a closing quotation mark if it belongs as part of the quoted material; otherwise put it after.
• An ellipsis should be written as three separate dots (...): not spaced (. . .), and not using the single-character option (…).
• The serial comma (for example the comma before and in "ham, chips, and eggs") is optional; be sensitive to possible ambiguity from thoughtless use or thoughtless avoidance.
• Avoid comma splices.
• Picture captions should not end in a full stop (a period) unless they are complete sentences.