Learn English – Is this in-text citation correctly punctuated

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I wonder if the following punctuation I made in my literary translation for an in-text citation is correct in conventional English. Or should I omit the period after parentheses? Or should I omit the period ending the quotation?

“Both speak of deporting a king who obtains his crown and throne and marries a beautiful princess.” (Abjadian, 1987:147).

Note: In the source language, it was not connected to any sentence before or after it. So I translated it as it was.

Best Answer

Inside the citation, that apparent year-colon-page formation is alien to every citational style I know, but I would have to know the style you are aiming for (such as APA, MLA, CMS, whatever) in order to correct it for you. The choice among such styles is normally up to your professor or editor, and not up to you. But I can tell you that you should omit the period just before the closing quotation marks. That is not a point (pun intended) on which styles differ.

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