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SBL Style, Second Edition: References: Other Resources

General Format

References are entered in two places. The Bibliography goes at the end of your paper, and the Notes are the in-text citation in the body of your paper.

The Bibliography has the full citation information.

  • Single-spaced with an extra space between entries.
  • Alphabetize entries and use a hanging indent.
  • See the examples in the boxes below.

Notes are either endnotes (at the end of the body of the paper) or footnotes (bottom of each page)

  • Formatting is the same for endnotes or footnotes. But use only one or the other, not both.
  • Numbered notes are coordinated by superscript numbers in the body of text.
  • Notes are indented one tab.
  • The first time you cite a source, use the Full note as indicated below; subsequent times, use the Shortened Note form.

Lectures and Presentations

Paper Presented at a Professional Society

Last name, First Name, "Title." Paper presented at name of Professional Organization. City, Date.

Sweeney, Marvin A. "Political Perspectives in the Book of the Twelve." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX, 11 November 2023.

 

Full note: 

23. Marvin A. Sweeney. "Political Perspectives in the Book of the Twelve" (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, 11 November 2023).

Shortened note:

24. Sweeney, "Political Perspectives."

Class Lecture

Last name, First name. "Title of lecture." Class lecture presented at name of school or university. City, Date.

Elder, Jane. "Footnotes for Credo and Other Large Projects." Class lecture presented at Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, TX, 6 November, 2014.

 

Full note:

25. Jane Elder "Footnotes for Credo and Other Large Projects" (class lecture presented at Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, TX, 6 November, 2014).

Shortened note:

26. Elder, "Footnotes for Credo."

Websites and Blogs

References to informally published material online must still be cited in your notes and bibliography. Blogs entries can be left off the bibliography, but references to them must still must cite them in the body of your paper. Access dates are not required for SBL style.

Websites

"Title or Description." Name of Website. Website URL.

"The One Hundred Most Important Cuneiform Objects." cdli:wiki. http://cdili.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=the_one_hundred_most_important_cuneiform_objects.

 

Full note:

27. "The One Hundred Most Important Cuneiform Objects," cdli:wiki, http://cdili.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=the_one_hundred_most_important_cuneiform_objects.

Blogs

Author's name, "Title of Blog Entry," Name of Blog, Date, URL.

28. Mark Goodacre, "Jesus' Wife Fragment: Another Round-up," NT Blog, 9 May 2014, http://ntweblog.blogspot.com.