Use a period at the end of full sentences, and don’t use a period at the end of sentence fragments or after the last item in an unordered list. Use only one space after a period, or any other punctuation, that ends a complete sentence.
Be aware of the differences in these terms, which are all represented by a period character:
- dot
- The character used in domain names, email addresses, and computer files.
- full stop
- This term is traditionally British English. Don’t use in Drucare documentation.
- period
- The name for the punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence.
- point
- The dot glyph used in numbers to separate the fractional part from the integer part.