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semicolon in a complex list

Semicolons used to separate list items that already contain commas.

A semicolon in a complex list separates items in a series when one or more of those items already contains an internal comma, preventing the reader from misreading where one item ends and the next begins.

Examples

  • We visited Paris, France; Rome, Italy; and Madrid, Spain.

See also

series (Oxford) comma
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