Grimer Girls here.

Hi, I'm Union Fogarty.

This week I have a meeting middle about how to treat URLs when you include them in

text.

And now on to how to format URLs in text.

Web addresses are strange beasts.

They seem more like equations or long numbers than words.

All the rules for how to handle URLs uniform resource locators in documents are a matter

of style.

But some styles make more sense than others.

URLs always have internal periods and often are scattered with other punctuation marks and

symbols, such as question marks, slashes, and percent signs.

So what do you do when one shows up at the end of a sentence?

Should you include the period or other terminal punctuation mark at the end of the sentence

as you normally would?

Leave off the period so the reader doesn't mistakenly include it in the address?

Or do something funky, such as put quotation marks around the address?

As you're weighing your options, first consider whether you're writing for print or the

web.

If you're writing for print, web addresses don't need special treatment.

Put the period, question mark, or exclamation point at the end of the sentence just as you

would if the sentence ended with a word or a number.

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