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Style Sheet for Submitting Papers for

The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture

1. Please submit your paper as an e-mail attachment and in a double-spaced hard copyif you have graphics or special fonts. Please send your mailing address, phonenumber, and e-mail address with your submission.

Once your article has been accepted for publication, please provide

photocopies of sources cited (include relevant pages and title page, etc., asneeded).

2. Spell out all scriptural references for the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine andCovenants, and Pearl of Great Price within the text. In parenthetical sourcecitations, references to the Doctrine and Covenants may be abbreviated D&C. UseArabic numerals (1 and 2 Nephi) instead of Roman numerals (I and II). Scripturalreferences should not be placed in footnotes but should appear at the end of thephrase in the following style:

And we did beat them again, and did slay a great number of them, and their dead

were cast into the sea (Mormon 3:8).

However, at the end of a block quotation, the punctuation precedes the reference:

And we did beat them again, and did slay a great number of them,and their dead were cast into the sea. (Mormon 3:8)

3. Any quoted material should be verified with the original source. Longer quotations(6 lines or more) should be in a block quotation format. Ellipses should be used inthe middle of quoted material where words have been deleted. There should be aspace between all ellipsis points: And we did beat . . . a great number. Ellipses arenot necessary at the beginning or end of a quotation, even though the quote begins

or ends in the middle of a sentence. Uppercase or lowercase letters need not bebracketed if context requires different capitalization from the original. Any editorialcomments added in the middle of a quotation should appear within brackets.

4. Pronouns referring to deity are preferably not capitalized. The adjectives biblical,apocryphal, scriptural, and talmudic are not capitalized; Koranic andMishnaic are.

5. Spell out (in lowercase letters) references to particular centuries and decades, i.e.,the twentieth century, during the sixties and seventies. The apostrophe in1980s, 1920s, etc., is omitted. The abbreviation AD properly precedes the yearnumber, whereas BC follows it:

Britain was invaded successfully in 55 BC and AD 1066.

6. Citation information for footnotes:

a. Give the full name of the author (first, middle initial, last).

b. Give the title of each book in full.

c. If a book within a series can be located without the series title, the series titleshould be omitted.


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d. For an article in a journal, the title of the article is given within quotationmarks, and the title of the magazine or journal is italicized.

e. Required publication information for books includes: (place: publisher, date).Do not include such words or abbreviations as Company, Co., Inc., or Press (unlessthe reference is to a university press, i.e., Cambridge University Press).

f. Page numbers should be given exactlydo not use f. or ff. Omit p. and pp.unless it would be confusing or misleading to do so. The general format forabbreviating inclusive numbers (page numbers and scripture references) is asfollows:

for numbers between and including 1 and 99, use no abbreviations: 2529,8992

when first number is 100 (or multiple of 100), use all digits: 100109, 200206

when first number is between 101 and 109 (or 201 and 209, etc.), use changedpart only (omit unneeded zeros): 1019, 2035

when first number is between 110 and 199 (or 210 and 299), etc.), use twodigits or more as needed: 11118, 153638

g. Subsequent citations within an article should be given a shortened formconsisting of the authors last name, a short title of the book or article, and page,volume, and edition number as necessary to make the reference unambiguous. Wehave stopped the practice of usingIbid.

h. Where the author has introduced italics within a quotation, emphasis addedshould appear following the page number and a comma. Emphasis added neednot be appended to quotations from the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine andCovenants, or the Pearl of Great Price, since italics rarely occur in these volumes.

Do use emphasis added with biblical quotations when appropriate.

i. Do not substitute Internet sources or CD-ROM databases for informationavailable in hard copy. Use Web sites sparingly; when you do cite them, pleaseprovide a printed copy of the material to submit with your other sources.

Examples of First Citations

1 Harold H. Rowley, The Zadokite Fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Oxford: Blackwell,1952), 13.

2 Augustin Bea, Divino Afflante Spiritu,Biblica 24 (1943): 316, emphasis added.

3 Erwin R. Goodenough, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, 2nd ed. (New York:

Pantheon Books,1953), 1:25.

4 Henry J. Cadbury, Acts and Eschatology, in The Background of the New Testament and Its

Eschatology, ed. William D. Davies and David Daube (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

1956), 319.

5 Hugh W. Nibley, Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (Salt

Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988), 153282.

Examples of Subsequent Citations

6 Rowley, The Zadokite Fragments, 13.

7 Bea, Divino Afflante Spiritu, 315.


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8 Goodenough,Jewish Symbols, 1:25.

9 Cadbury, Acts and Eschatology, 319.

10 Nibley,Lehi in the Desert, 153282.

7. Refer to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., for further matters of style.

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