# Double or Single Quote Marks for Quotes Inside Block Quotes?

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**Created:** [February 23, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-single-quote-marks-for-quotes-inside-block-quotes/530092 "2010-02-23T06:20:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-single-quote-marks-for-quotes-inside-block-quotes/530092/1 "2010-02-23T06:20:28Z")

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When there is a quote within a regular quote, single quote marks are used. I assume this is done to separate them from the double quote marks around the outside quote.

But what about a block quote that doesn’t have the double quote marks around it. Should quotes inside a block quote use double or single quotes?

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**Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-single-quote-marks-for-quotes-inside-block-quotes/530092/2 "2010-02-23T07:04:41Z")

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I believe you use double quotation marks. A quick look at the online Chicago Manual of Style confirms this:

Although material set off as a block quotation is not enclosed in quotation marks, quoted matter _within_ the block quotation is enclosed in double quotation marks (CMS 11.35).

Note that this if from [another source](http://www.globalautonomy.ca/global1/guidelines.jsp) that quotes it, since the online CMS is paywalled.