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So the Australian Style manual specifies that superscript is placed within punctuation except for at the end of a sentence, where it falls outside of the full stop. All well and good, but how about in the circumstance when the (complete) sentence ends with a colon that precedes a block quote? Does the superscript fall inside or outside of the colon?
I guess the question is whether the colon, in this case, constitutes the 'end of the sentence'.
Superscripts always fall within punctuation, unless you can cite a specific reason why not.
Except a following sentence, which won't be a superscript, nothing relating to a sentence should fall outside - or rather, after - the full stop.
It’s almost impossible for a sentence, much less a complete sentence, to end with a colon, whatever it precedes. When a colon is appropriate, whether a superscript falls before or after it depends on the circumstance, not any absolute rule.
If the Australian Style Manual says superscripts should be placed within punctuation except at the end of a sentence that could be well and good.
When you guess the question is whether the colon constitutes the end of the sentence which colon and which sentence did you mean to quote, please?
