Coincidentally, yesterday was National Punctuation Day! :-)
http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/
One of LACMA's fine editors, Jennifer Boynton, sent this answer about
punctuation after a URL (and also the National Punctuation Day alert!):
The most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style
On 9/25/08 12:14 PM, Folsom, Diana folsom at lacma.org wrote:
The period following the URL issue is addressed in 17.10 (URLs and
punctuation), where they recommend including the period because: Other
punctuation marks used following a URL will be readily perceived as
belonging to the
At the Getty we use Chicago's 15th edition, which includes some guidance on
technical terms, as was mentioned. We are currently in the process of creating
a Web style guide, which deals with everything from how to format a link in
running text versus in a list, to captions online and writing
