\RequirePackage{pdfmanagement} \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \input{biblatex-sbl-examples-preamble.tex} \setcounter{tocdepth}{2} \begin{document} \title{SBL Handbook of Style} \author{Student Supplement} \date{SBL Press} \maketitle \begin{abstract} This document contains the note and bibliography examples from then \href{https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/sblhssupp2015-02.pdf}{Student Supplement for \emph{The SBL Handbook of Style} Second Edition}. Each section shows what the various bib entries should look like and how to cite them. \end{abstract} \tableofcontents \section{Biblical Citations} \begin{verbatim} @inbook{petersen:2006, author = {Petersen, David L.}, title = {Ezekiel}, pages = {1096-1167}, booktitle = {The HarperCollins Study Bible Fully Revised and Updated: New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocryphal\slash Deuterocanonical Books}, editor = {Attridge, Harold W. and others}, location = {San Francisco}, publisher = {HarperSanFrancisco}, date = {2006} } \end{verbatim} \examplecite(3)[1096]{petersen:2006} \examplecite(5)[1096]{petersen:2006} \examplebibliography \section{Working with Biblical Commentaries} \subsection{Series Title and Volume Title} \begin{verbatim} @commentary{westermann:1995, author = {Westermann, Claus}, title = {Genesis 12--36}, translator = {Scullion, John J.}, series = {Continental Commentaries}, shortseries = {CC}, location = {Minneapolis}, publisher = {Fortress}, date = {1995} } \end{verbatim} \examplecite(18)[25]{westermann:1995} \examplecite(20)[44]{westermann:1995} \exampleabbreviations \examplebibliography \subsection{Multivolume Commentaries} \begin{verbatim} @mvcommentary{dahood:1965-1970, author = {Dahood, Mitchell}, title = {Psalms}, volumes = {3}, series = {Anchor Bible}, shortseries = {AB}, number = {16--17A}, location = {Garden City, NY}, publisher = {Doubleday}, date = {1965/1970} } \end{verbatim} \examplevolcite(4){3}[127]{dahood:1965-1970} \examplevolcite(7){2}[121]{dahood:1965-1970} \exampleabbreviations \examplebibliography \newrefsection \begin{verbatim} @commentary{dahood:1965, author = {Dahood, Mitchell}, title = {Psalms I: 1--50}, shorttitle = {Psalms I: 1--50}, series = {Anchor Bible}, shortseries = {AB}, number = {16}, location = {Garden City, NY}, publisher = {Doubleday}, date = {1965} } @commentary{dahood:1968, author = {Dahood, Mitchell}, title = {Psalms II: 51--100}, shorttitle = {Psalms II: 51--100}, series = {Anchor Bible}, shortseries = {AB}, number = {17}, location = {Garden City, NY}, publisher = {Doubleday}, date = {1968} } \end{verbatim} \examplecite(78)[44]{dahood:1965} \examplecite(79)[78]{dahood:1965} \examplecite(82)[347]{dahood:1968} \examplecite(86)[351]{dahood:1968} \exampleabbreviations \examplebibliography \subsubsection{Notes} \pkg{biblatex-sbl} follows the \emph{SBL Handbook of Style} blog and does not include the entire multivolume work in the bibliography entries of the individual volumes. See \url{https://sblhs2.com/2018/05/10/series-volume-identifiers/}. \newrefsection \begin{verbatim} @mvcommentary{NIB, shorthand = {NIB}, editor = {Keck, Leander E.}, title = {The New Interpreter's Bible}, volumes = {12}, location = {Nashville}, publisher = {Abingdon}, date = {1994/2004} } @incommentary{miller:jeremiah, author = {Miller, Patrick D.}, title = {The Book of Jeremiah: Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections}, xref = {NIB}, volume = {6}, pages = {553-926}, } \end{verbatim} \examplecite(1)[577]{miller:jeremiah} \exampleabbreviations \examplebibliography \subsubsection{Notes} \pkg{biblatex-sbl} follows more recent publications and includes the title in these citations. See, for example, \url{https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/9781628375008_OA.pdf}. \subsection{Single-Volume Commentaries on the Entire Bible} \begin{verbatim} @incommentary{partain:1995, author = {Partain, Jack G.}, title = {Numbers}, pages = {175-179}, booktitle = {Mercer Commentary on the Bible}, editor = {Mills, Watson E. and others}, location = {Macon, GA}, publisher = {Mercer University Press}, date = {1995} } \end{verbatim} \examplecite(5){partain:1995} \examplecite(8)[175]{partain:1995} \examplebibliography \section{Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias} \begin{verbatim} @mvreference{ABD, shorthand = {ABD}, editor = {Freedman, David Noel}, title = {Anchor Bible Dictionary}, volumes = {6}, location = {New York}, publisher = {Doubleday}, date = {1992}, pagination = {subverbo} } @inreference{walters:jacobnarrative, author = {Walters, Stanley D.}, title = {Jacob Narrative}, xref = {ABD}, volume = {3}, pages = {599-609} } \end{verbatim} \examplecite(1)[599-609]{walters:jacobnarrative} \exampleabbreviations \examplebibliography \subsubsection{Notes} \begin{itemize} \item The pages for \cite{walters:jacobnarrative} are incorrect in the Student Supplement bibliography entry. \item SBL prefers the shorter form in the bibliography with \cite{ABD} appearing in a list of abbreviations. See point 5 in \url{https://sblhs2.com/2017/04/13/citing-reference-works-5-topical-dictionaries-and-encyclopedias/}. This includes when multiple articles are cited from the same dictionary or encyclopedia. \end{itemize} \section{Citations of Electronic Sources} \begin{verbatim} @article{mclay:2006, author = {McLay, R. Timothy}, title = {The Goal of Teaching Biblical and Religious Studies in the Context of an Undergraduate Education}, journaltitle = {SBL Forum}, date = {2006/10/6}, url = {http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=581} } \end{verbatim} \examplecite(7){mclay:2006} \examplecite(9){mclay:2006} \examplebibliography \section{Footnotes} \begin{verbatim} @book{vanseters:1992, author = {Van Seters, John}, title = {Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis}, shorttitle = {Prologue}, location = {Louisville}, publisher = {Westminster John Knox}, date = {1992} } \end{verbatim} \examplecite(7)[115]{vanseters:1992} \examplecite(8)[150]{vanseters:1992} \examplebibliography \section{Bibliography} \begin{verbatim} @mvreference{NIDNTT, shorthand = {NIDNTT}, editor = {Brown, Colin}, title = {New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology}, volumes = {4}, location = {Grand Rapids}, publisher = {Zondervan}, date = {1975/1985} } @mvcommentary{dahood:1965-1970, author = {Dahood, Mitchell}, title = {Psalms}, volumes = {3}, series = {Anchor Bible}, shortseries = {AB}, number = {16--17A}, location = {Garden City, NY}, publisher = {Doubleday}, date = {1965/1970} } @incollection{harrington:1986, author = {Harrington, Daniel}, title = {Palestinian Adaptations of Biblical Narratives and Prophecies}, pages = {239-247}, booktitle = {Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters}, editor = {Kraft, R. A. and Nickelsburg, G. W. E.}, series = {The Bible and Its Modern Interpreters}, shortseries = {BMI}, number = {2}, location = {Philadelphia}, publisher = {Fortress}, date = {1986} } @article{harrington:1970, author = {Harrington, Daniel}, title = {The Original Language of Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum}, journaltitle = {Harvard Theological Review}, shortjournal = {HTR}, volume = {63}, date = {1970}, pages = {503-514} } @reference{Jastrow, shorthand = {Jastrow}, editor = {Jastrow, Morris}, editortype = {compiler}, title = {A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature with an Index of Scriptural Quotations}, location = {London and New York}, publisher = {Luzac and G. P. Putnam’s Sons}, date = {1903}, pagination = {subverbo}, options = {shorthandformat=roman} } @reference{DMBI, shorthand = {DMBI}, editor = {McKim, Donald K.}, title = {Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters}, location = {Downers Grove, IN}, publisher = {InterVarsity Press}, date = {2007} } @article{mclay:2006, author = {McLay, R. Timothy}, title = {The Goal of Teaching Biblical and Religious Studies in the Context of an Undergraduate Education}, shorttitle = {Goal of Teaching}, journaltitle = {SBL Forum}, date = {2006-10-06}, url = {http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=581} } @mvreference{DBI, shorthand = {DBI}, editor = {Hayes, John}, title = {Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation}, volumes = {2}, location = {Nashville}, publisher = {Abingdon}, date = {1999} } @inreference{oday:intertextuality, author = {O’Day, Gail}, title = {Intertextuality}, xref = {DBI}, volume = {1}, pages = {546-548} } @commentary{vonrad:1990, author = {von Rad, Gerhard}, title = {Genesis: A Commentary}, translator = {Marks, John H.}, series = {Old Testament Library}, shortseries = {OTL}, location = {Philadelphia}, publisher = {Westminster}, date = {1990} } \end{verbatim} \begin{verbcite} \nocite{NIDNTT, dahood:1965-1970, harrington:1986, harrington:1970, Jastrow, DMBI, mclay:2006, oday:intertextuality, vonrad:1990} \end{verbcite} \exampleabbreviations \examplebibliography \subsubsection{Notes} \begin{itemize} \item Following the blog, \pkg{biblatex-sbl} prefers to use abbreviations for dictionaries and encyclopedias. \item The \emph{Student Supplement} includes the definite article in sorting the two Harrington bibliography entries. In line with more recent publications, \pkg{biblatex-sbl} ignores articles for the purposes of sort order in the bibliography. See \url{https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/9781628375008_OA.pdf} for an example of this sort order. This is also the position taken by the \emph{Chicago Manual of Style}. See §14.71 “Alphabetical order for titles by the same author” in the 18th edition. \end{itemize} \end{document}