Abbreviation guidelines
Currents in Biblical Research Detailed Stylesheet
Submission
Proposals for articles should be sent to the editors. No manuscripts should be submitted until the proposal has been discussed with the editors. The following are their contact details:
Alan J. Hauser
Senior Editor and Editor for Old Testament
Department of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA
hauseraj@appstate.edu
Scot McKnight
Editor for New Testament
Department of Religious Studies, North Park University, 3225 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625, USA
smcknight@northpark.edu
Jonathan Klawans
Editor for Ancient Judaism
Department of Religion, Boston University, 145 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA
jklawans@bu.edu
Each article submitted must include four parts: a 150-word abstract together with four to six keywords arranged in
alphabetical order; the text (subdivided under appropriate headings); a bibliography, which must include a complete entry for every work cited in text, and at least one work by every writer/scholar mentioned; and a list of all abbreviations used in text and bibliography, with definitions. Please double line space both the text and the bibliography, and use left justification only.
Copy your article on to a floppy or compact disk, preferably in Corel Wordperfect, Microsoft Word or Rich Text (.rtf) format. Print out a hard copy from that disk, and send both hard copy and disk to the appropriate editor.
Styling Points
References in Text: Every author and every work cited in text must have a complete entry in the bibliography.
References in text point readers to appropriate entries in the bibliography and pages within the work. Use writers’
surnames only, or surname and first initial if two authors share a surname. Citations must include author’s surname, date of work, and page range, if necessary: (Hauser and Watson 2003: 2-53). If a work has more than three authors, use et al. after the first author’s name. Present more than one work by an author in chronological order, separated by semicolons: (Hauser and Watson 1994; Hauser and Watson 2003). Sample entries are:
Book:
Hauser, A.J., and D. Watson (eds.)
2003 A History of Biblical Interpretation. I: The Ancient Period (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans).
Article in a Journal:
Helmer, C.
2005 ‘Biblical Theology: Bridge Over Many Waters’, CBR 3.2: 169-96.
Article/chapter in a volume:
Baskin, J.R.
1992 ‘Rabbinic Interpretations of Job’, in L.G. Perdue and W.C. Gilpin (eds.), The Voice from the Whirl wind (Nashville: Abingdon Press): 101-10.
Bibliographies: Include a complete entry for at least one major work of each author/scholar mentioned in text, and for every work cited in your text. You may include primary and secondary works not mentioned in your text, for readers to follow up on a topic
Foreign Terms: Italicize non-English words and terms not in common English usage.
Offprints: On publication, the corresponding author will be given controlled access to a pdf of their article and a complimentary copy of the journal.
For more detialed guidelines, please click the above link - Currents in Biblcial Research Detailed Stylesheet.
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