Canadian Style Tip #5: Run-in format for quotations

This post is part of the Canadian Style series.

8.02 Quotations: run-in format

Use the run-in format when the quoted matter is not more than fifty words or five lines long (longer quotations should be set in block format):

Mary said, “You are the best husband in the world.”

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