Style Guidelines Studies in the Bible and Antiquity

1. Submit your paper as an e-mail attachment. If you will be using special fonts or diacritics that will not transfer well via e-mail, then please submit your paper on hard copy as well. Please include your mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address with your submission.


2. Once your paper is accepted, you will be required to provide photocopies of the sources cited. Include the relevant pages, title page, and copyright page (in lieu of providing the last two items, simply note on the photocopied source the place of publication, publisher, year of publication, edition, etc.) so we will have what we need to verify quotations and to style the notes with full publication data.


3. Spell out all scriptural references for the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. In parenthetical source citations, references to the Doctrine and Covenants may be abbreviated on subsequent reference (D&C 20:1). Use Arabic rather than roman numerals (2 Nephi; 3 John). Scriptural references should not be placed in footnotes but should appear at the end of the phrase in the following style: "Their dead were cast into the sea" (Mormon 3:8). However, at the end of a block quotation, the period precedes the reference: Their dead were cast into the sea. (Mormon 3:8). All other citations should follow the SBL Style Guide.
4. Any quoted material should be verified with the original source. Longer quotations (six lines or more) should be set as block quotations. Ellipses should be used in the middle of quoted material where words have been deleted. There should be a space between all ellipsis points (but not between the period and the preceding word): "Then shall he immerse him . . . in the water. . . . It is expedient that the church meet together often" (D&C 20:74-75). Ellipses are not necessary at the beginning or end of a quotation. Uppercase or lowercase letters need not be bracketed if context requires different capitalization from the original, though bracketing may be desirable with quotations of a historical nature (i.e., from past centuries). Any editorial comments added within a quotation should be bracketed.
5. Pronouns referring to deity are not capitalized (unless clarity demands it, as in "God told Abraham that He would bless him"). The adjectives biblical, apocryphal, scriptural, and talmudic are not capitalized; Koranic and Mishnaic are.
6. Spell out (in lowercase letters) references to particular centuries and decades, i.e., "the twentieth century," "during the sixties and seventies." The apostrophe in 1980s, 1920s, etc. is omitted. The abbreviation ad properly precedes the year number, whereas bc follows it: Britain was invaded successfully in 55 bc and ad 1066.
7. Citation information for footnotes:

   a. Give the full name of the author (first, middle initial, last).

   b. Give the title of each book in full.

   c. If a book within a series can be located without the series title, the series title should be omitted.

   d. For an article in a journal, the title of the article is given within quotation marks, and the title of the magazine or journal is italicized.

   e. If a book or article by Nibley is cited and has already appeared in the Collected Works, then the original citation need not be given.

   f. Required publication information for books includes: (place: publisher, date). Do not include such words or abbreviations as Company, Co., Inc., or Press (unless the reference is to a university press, i.e., Cambridge University Press).

   g. Page numbers should be given exactly-do not use f. or ff. Omit p. and pp. unless it would be confusing or misleading to do so. The general format for abbreviating inclusive numbers (page numbers and scripture references) is as follows:

   for numbers between and including 1 and 99, use no abbreviations: 25-29, 89-92

   when first number is 100 (or multiple of 100), use all digits: 100-109, 200-206

   when first number is between 101 and 109 (or 201 and 209, etc.), use changed part only (omit unneeded zeros): 101-9, 203-5

   when first number is between 110 and 199 (or 210 and 299), etc.), use two digits or more as needed: 111-18, 1536-38

   h. Subsequent citations within an article should be given a shortened form consisting of the author's last name, a short title of the book or article, and page, volume, and edition number as necessary to make the reference unambiguous. We have stopped the practice of using Ibid.

   i. Where the author has introduced italics within a quotation, "emphasis added" should appear following the page number and a comma. "Emphasis added" need not be appended to quotations from the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, or the Pearl of Great Price, since italics rarely occur in these volumes. Do use "emphasis added" with biblical quotations when appropriate.

   Examples of First Citations

   ¹Harold H. Rowley, The Zadokite Fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Oxford: Blackwell, 1952), 1-3.

   ²Augustin Bea, "Divino Afflante Spiritu," Biblica 24 (1943): 316, emphasis added.

   ³Erwin R. Goodenough, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, 2nd ed. (New York: Pantheon Books,1953), 1:25.

   ⁴Henry J. Cadbury, "Acts and Eschatology," in The Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology, ed. William D. Davies and David Daube (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956), 319.

   ⁵Hugh W. Nibley, Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988), 153-282.

   Examples of Subsequent Citations

   ⁶Rowley, Zadokite Fragments, 1-3.

   ⁷Bea, "Divino Afflante Spiritu," 315.

   ⁸Goodenough, Jewish Symbols, 1:25.

   ⁹Cadbury, "Acts and Eschatology," 319.

   ¹⁰Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, 153-282.

8. Refer to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., for further matters of style.