To protect themselves against ESBL and/or AmpC-producing bacteria, consumers should observe the same hygiene rules that apply to other pathogens that can be transmitted to humans from animals or food, which include: 1  Wash hands with warm water and soap after every contact with animals, including household pets.
With short quotations, place citations outside of closing quotation marks, followed by sentence punctuation (period, question mark, comma, semi-colon, colon): Menand (2002) characterizes language as a social weapon (p. 115). With block quotations, check the guidelines for the documentation system you are using.
Example: Thoreau ends his essay with a metaphor: Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.. This is an easy rule to remember: if you use a complete sentence to introduce a quotation, you need a colon after the sentence. Be careful not to confuse a colon (:) with a semicolon (;). Using a comma in this situation will most likely create a comma splice, one of the serious sentence-boundary errors. 2. Use an introductory or explanatory phrase, but not a complete sentence, separated from the quotation with a comma.