> Well, it appears I was a bit off. The British-American divide about quotation marks comes from placement of the comma and period.
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> Vida said, "This is the British version." Note that because I am quoting a sentence, I include the punctuation used in the quoted sentence.
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> Vida said, "This is the American version". Note here that I do not, even though I am quoting a complete sentence.
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> -FP

Now I am completely confused, which is a normal condition for me. Possibly I am not up to date, but I would normally put the period inside the quotes. I also believe the question mark, exclamation point, comma, and period all follow the same rule. How would you do it if the quotation is at the beginning of the sentence?

"Put the quotation at the beginning," he said.

Well, that's the way I would do it. I haven't followed your link yet, but having gotten up too early this morning, I am too sleepy to do it now. Tomorrow maybe.
How"yawn"ard