§5 Citations & References

Authors are responsible for submitting notes and bibliographies that are complete, accurate, and consistent with the required style. All note numbers should be checked against the body text to ensure that references appear in the correct order, correspond to the proper notes, and do not include missing, extra, or duplicate numbers.

The appropriate documentation system should be determined before the manuscript is prepared. Some works will use footnotes with a bibliography; others may require endnotes or author-date citations. In most cases, the placement of notes is a production matter, but the choice between a humanities-style notes-and-bibliography system and an author-date system should be settled early, especially in works that draw from scholarship, scripture, ritual texts, archival sources, or modern commentary.

In a traditional notes-and-bibliography format, the first citation of a source should include full publication information, with later citations using a shortened form. In author-date format, the reference list should include only the works cited in the text. Bibliographies may be complete, selective, or expanded beyond the notes, depending on the nature of the work. Standard abbreviations for journals, series, texts, and commonly cited works should be used consistently, and any non-obvious abbreviations should be gathered into a separate list for the reader.

Important Note: Page numbers in the following examples are not intended to reflect accurate reference information, They are for example purposes only.