Volume number and page number

After the closed parenthesis and comma, cite the volume number (if any) and page number(s) to which the reference is made. It is not necessary to add the abbreviations p or pp unless their absence would cause confusion. In the example below the number 3 refers to the volume and 15 to the page number.

Adolf Harnack, History of Dogma, trans. Neil Buchanan, 7 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1896-1905), 3:15.

3. Preparing notes on periodicals

When citing periodicals (journals, newspapers, etc.) the following information is given:

• Full name of author(s).

• Title in quotation marks.

• Name of periodical in italics.

• Volume and issue numbers.

• Date in parentheses followed by a colon (:)

• Page number(s)

Examples:

Sergei Averintsev, “Overcoming the Totalitarian Past,” Religion in Eastern Europe Volume XXIV, Number 3 (June 2004): 28.

Josef Smolik, “Comenius, a Man of Hope in a Time of Turmoil,” Christian History, Volume VI, Number 1 (1987): 17.

3. Subsequent references

After the first complete reference to a work, it is acceptable to abbreviate subsequent references. For example:

⁵⁵Thomas M. Raitt, A Theology of Exile (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977), 177.

³Raitt, Exile, 177.

When the same work is referred to with no other intervening references, it is acceptable to use the Latin abbreviation ibid. (short for ibidem, “in the same place”) in place of the author’s name, title of the work, and as much of the succeeding material as is identical. For example:

²Ruth A. Tucker and Walter L. Liefeld, Daughters of the Church: Women and Ministry from New Testament Times to the Present (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), 408.

⁵⁶Ibid., 410.

More examples are given in Section 5.