logical quotation

A system of quotation in which terminal punctuation marks are enclosed within a quotation only if the sense of the punctuation is part of the original material being quoted.

2011, Mark Nichol, “Logical Punctuation Isn’t the Logical Choice”, in Daily Writing Tips, retrieved 2015-09-04:

[The American] system is inconsistent: Place commas and periods inside quotation marks, but semicolons and colons go outside. Em dashes, question marks, and exclamation points go inside or outside depending on whether they’re part of the context of the quoted material (shades of logical punctuation).

2011-05-19, David Marsh, “'The British style'? 'The American way?' They are not so different”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), London: Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2015-09-24:

The debate about "logical punctuation" suggests two things. First, there is nothing very logical about it. As with so many aspects of language, what you use tends to be the result of a battle between what you were taught, and what you like the look of. Second, British and American English have more in common than people sometimes think.