Tag: Citation

How to Use Zotero to Properly Cite Grammars in SBL Style
You might think that citing a grammar according to the SBL Handbook of Style would be pretty straightforward (affiliate disclosure).1 And you’d be right, but there are several special cases to account for. 1. Cite section numbers wherever possible. Instead of citing a grammar by page number, you should cite by section number wherever possible…
14 June 2021
How to Cite Dictionaries with Zotero
SBL style prescribes different citation formats for encyclopedias, lexicons, and dictionaries. Zotero can handle these formats if you know how.
8 February 2021
Daily Gleanings: Post Updates (3 June 2019)
I’ve been grateful to be able to materially update two prior posts with additional content: Publication Year Ranges in Zotero: Previously, this post described how to get Zotero to produce the proper output when citing a series or multivolume work as a whole that was published over a range of years. The prior post version,…
3 June 2019
4 Steps to Using IATG with the SBL Handbook of Style
In the second edition of the SBL Handbook of Style (SBLHS2; affiliate disclosure), chapter 8 is entirely dedicated to abbreviations.1 According to the Handbook, “abbreviations for works not listed below should follow Siegfried M. Schwertner, Internationales Abkürzungsverzeichnis für Theologie und Grenzgebiete, 3rd ed. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014 [=IATG3])” (affiliate disclosure). Here are four steps to…
29 October 2018
SBLHS student supplement and “ibid.”
According to SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd ed., §§1, 3, 4.3.6, supports the use of “ibid.” From those descriptions, conventions look to be the same as for the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., §14.29. As an easy (and free) reference for students, SBL also provides a Student Supplement to the SBLHS. One of the courses I’ve…
25 January 2017
Citations in Footnotes in SBL’s Footnote-bibliography Style
The “Chicago Manual” gives guidance about how to cite sources for material inside footnotes. But SBL style has some different preferences.
18 October 2016