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2.3.2. Title of book

Give the title and subtitle (if any) of books in italics. Always capitalize the first and last words in a title, including the first word after the colon in a subtitle. All other words should be capitalized except articles, prepositions, to used as part of an infinitive, and coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for):

The Divorce Myth

The Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17

Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity?

The Way: What Every Protestant Should Know about the Orthodox Church

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

      1. Name of editor(s), translator(s), or compiler(s)

Indicate the name of an editor, translator, or compiler (if different from the author) with the abbreviation ed., trans., or comp., as appropriate.

Nicholas Berdyaev, The End of Our Time, trans. Donald Atwater (New York: Sheed & Ward, Inc., 1933), 140-141.

James R. Krabill, Walter Sawatsky, and Charles E. Van Engen, eds., Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation (Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis, 2006), ix.

Michael S. Montgomery, comp., American Puritan Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Dissertations, 1882-1981 (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1984), 102.

      1. Number of volumes

When citing a volume in a multi-volume work, note the number of volumes in the series.

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill; 2 vols., (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960), 2:1016.

      1. Edition, if other than the first

Information concerning the edition is required if the work cited is not the first edition. If information about the edition is not given on the title page, check the copyright page (reverse of the title page).

T. R. Glover, The Ancient World (London: Pelican, 1935; reprint, Penguin: 1957), 306.

John Lawrence, A History of Russia, 2d rev. ed. (New York: Mentor, 1969), 41.

      1. Facts of publication

2.3.6.1. Place of publication: Indicate the city where the book or article was published, as it appears on the title page, in parentheses.

Moscow (not Moskva) St. Petersburg (not Sankt-Peterburg)

Vienna (not Wien) Munich (not München)

Prague (not Praha)

Vaclav Havel, Letters to Olga, trans. Paul Wilson (London: Faber and Faber, 1988; paperback 1990), 137.

Henri J. M. Nouwen, Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation (Westminster, Md.: Christian Classics, Inc., 1992), 20.

Douglas D. Webster, A Passion for Christ: An Evangelical Christology (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1987), 89.

OR

Douglas D. Webster, A Passion for Christ: An Evangelical Christology (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), 89.

2.3.6.2. Name of publisher: In footnotes and endnotes the name of the publisher may be abbreviated. University presses are an exception—the word “Press” should not be omitted from them.

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Eerdmans

BUT Oxford University Press

2.3.6.3 Year of publication: Cite the year of publication as given on the copyright page (reverse of the title page). Look for the date with the publisher’s imprint; if there is more than one date given, use the most recent one. The date is followed by a closed parenthesis and comma.

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