Confusion of punctuations

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Should comma be put in double quotation marks? Like:
“Power and Money: How They Steal,” ====>>> "“Power and Money: How They Steal”, ?

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But so many officials are engaging in the same practices that in Hong Kong there is a cottage industry in books that detail the private lives of corrupt officials, with titles like, “The Sexy Record of High-Ranking Communist Party Officials,” “Power and Money: How They Steal,” and “Shared Mistresses: Lust and Caution Among Chinese Officials.”

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The rule of thumb is that a comma goes inside the quotation marks. (JTT, of course, might argue with that.)

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@Merry Andrew,

“The Sexy Record of High-Ranking Communist Party Officials,” “Power and Money: How They Steal,” and “Shared Mistresses: Lust and Caution Among Chinese Officials.”

I'll leave the rules of punctuation to you, okay, Merry.

But I do have a genuine question. Even in a case like this?

If the titles were italicized, would the comma also get italicized?

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American English places commas and periods inside the quotation almost all of the time, making exceptions only for parenthetical citation and cases in which the addition of a period or comma would create confusion, such as when quoting a keyboard entry or a web address. The British style places them inside or outside the quotation marks according to whether or not the punctuation is part of the quoted material.

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@contrex,

Thank you Contrex. That is a comprehensive explanation obviously.

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