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I am trying to put quote marks around a word, and have been doing it ' 'word", however I am still getting two backwards quote marks. My preamble is 

\documentclass[twocolumn,prl,nobalancelastpage,aps,10pt]{article}
%\documentclass[rmp,preprint]{revtex4-1}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{5}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\usepackage{graphicx,bm,times}
\usepackage{appendix}
\def\bibsection{\section*{\refname}} 
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{appendix}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{circledsteps}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{myformat}{#1#2#3\hrulefill}
\captionsetup[figure]{format=myformat}
\setlength{\droptitle}{-8em}

Has anyone got a reason or solution for why this is happening. I will need to put a number of quotes in, so any help for a proper solution is really appreciated.

J. Smith
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    You may want to look into the csquotes package and its \enquote command: \enquote{in quotes}. – moewe Mar 07 '20 at 15:46
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    Welcome to TeX SX. Please post a *complete code demonstrating the problem. – Bernard Mar 07 '20 at 15:46
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    the preamble you show isn't very relevant, the example should be an example of the problem but I think you are doing ''word'' but it should be \`word''` that is two backtick (ascii grave) on the left and two single quotes on the right, don't use the double quote – David Carlisle Mar 07 '20 at 15:58

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In English, you write quoted ``word'', in German it is ,,Wort'', in Spanish it is 《palabra》. The easiest way out is to use the csquotes package, and write \textquote{quoted}.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[spanish, ngerman, english]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle = true]{csquotes} % Adjust to language

\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{english}
  This is text in English.
  Here we quote ``by hand'' and also
  using \textquote{\LaTeX}.

 \selectlanguage{ngerman}
   Dies is auf Deutsch.
   Hier werden zum Beispiel \glqq auf dieser Weise\grqq{}
   Phrasen zitiert.
   Oder \textquote{es wird so} geschrieben.

 \selectlanguage{spanish}
    En castellano,
    tambi\'en se usan signos especiales,
    se cita con <<esto>>
    o \textquote{de esta manera}.
 \end{document}
vonbrand
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