How do people use quotation marks with periods? This always confuses me. Are there any good sites on the topic?

Answer 1

In American English, periods should go inside of (before) the closing quotation marks.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm

Answer 2

Here are a number of sites.

http://grammartips.homestead.com/inside.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/marks/quotation.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/grammar/Quotes3.html