SBL contains two different styles. Lycoming professors allow you to choose which you want to use, but be consistent.
Use a hanging indentation for the citation; use the author's full name(s) as given; capitalize all keywords in Title of Work, Title of Periodical, Title of Article, and Title of Chapter; do not italicize volume number after Title of Periodical; do not include the issue number unless the journal begins with page one with each issue. What follows is a sample of common bibliographical sources. For other types of sources, see The SBL Handbook of Style, pp. 38-75.
Type | Example |
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Book by a Single Author | Talbert, Charles H. Reading John: A Literary and Theological commentary on the Fourth Gospel and the Johannine Epistles. New York: Crossroad, 1992. |
Titled Book in Series | Cogan, Mordechai, and Hayim Tadmor. II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 11. New York: Doubleday, 1998. |
Journal Article | Layerle, Blake. “John Chrysostom on the Gaze.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 1 (1993): 159-74. |
Article in Encyclopedia or Volume of Essays | Attridge, Harold A. “Jewish Historiography.” Pages 311-43 in Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters. Edited by R. A. Kraft and G. W. E. Nickelsburg. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986. |
LOEB Classical Library | Tacitus. The Histories and Annals. Translated by C. H. Moore and J. Jackson. 4 vols. LOEB Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937. |
Type | Example |
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Book by a Single Author | Wilder, Amos. 1939. Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus. New York: Harper and Bros. |
Titled Book in Series | Cogan, Mordechai, and Hayim Tadmor. 1988. II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 11. New York: Doubleday. |
Journal Article | Leyerle, Blake. 1993. “John Chrysostom on the Gaze.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 1:159-74. |
Article in Encyclopedia or Volume of Essays | Stendahl, K. 1962. “Biblical Theology, Contemporary.” Pages 418-32 in vol. 1 of Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by G. A. Butterick. 5 vols. Nashville: Abingdon. |
LOEB Classical Library | Tacitus, Cornelius. The Histories and the Annals. 1937. Translated by C. H. Moore and J. Jackson. 4 vols. LOEB Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. |
Alexander, Patrick H., ed. The SBL Handbook of Style: For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999.
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