The following bulbs are the easiest to force into bloom because they don't require a chilling period: 1  Amaryllis: Blooms appear six to eight weeks after planting. 2  Paperwhites: Blooms appear three to five weeks after planti ng.
For a quotation of 39 words or fewer, place the sentence punctuation after the closing bracket of the reference: âA terrible storm started last night as I took the dog for our nightly walkâ (Jamieson, 1999, p. 12). For a block quotation, the closing punctuation appears before the reference citation. See What is the correct formatting in APA style for a block quotation (40+ words)? and Back to Basics with Periods for more information.
Section 3. Periods or commas usually go inside the quotation marks. (This is true even if the original quoted material did not end with a period or a comma). Exception: If there is a parenthetical citation immediately after the quote, the period or comma goes after the parenthetical citation. Thompson (1998) describes Esme as a real charmer (p. 32). If the quote itself ends with an exclamation mark or a question mark, include it inside the quotation marks.