A BRIEF GUIDE TO RESEARCH PAPERS: Part Two

C.NUMBERATION
1.The pages are to be numbered consecutively, starting from the title page to the last page of the bibliography. There are two categories of pagination: for title and table of content pages, number with consecutive lowercase Roman numerals (e.g. i, ii), centered at the bottom of the page. For the rest of the paper, number with Arabic numerals centered at the bottom of pages that bears or section headings; and centered at the top (or place in the upper right hand corner) of all other pages of the text.

2.Footnotes are to be numbered serially throughout the paper.

3.Whole numbers up to 100 should be in words (e.g. four gospels, twenty-four elders, but 144,000). Use words and not numbers to start a sentence.


D.SPELLING AND OTHER CONVENTIONS
1.Although both British and American systems of spelling are accepted, the paper must adhere to one system consistently.

2.When alternative spellings are accepted within a system (such as the British), follow one form consistently (e.g. ‘organise’ and theorise,’ and not, ‘organize and theories’).

3.Foreign words are to be in italics unless they have been naturalized in the English language (e.g. ‘felix culpa’ but ‘rendezvous.'

4.A block is strongly away from the use of periods (full stop), especially in uppercase abbreviations. Contractions of biblical books should be done unambiguously and consistently, and no period is required (e.g. Gen, Exod.).

5.A block of verses counts as a single unit unless the individual verses within this block are explicitly referred to (e.g. ‘Gen 1:27-8 tells us …but vv.30 and 31 seem to contradict…’).

6.The titles of sacred scriptures- Bible, Qur’an (Koran), Talmud, Upanishads, Vedas, and the like-and the names of books of the Bible and of the Apocrypha are neither italicized nor put in quotation marks. For e.g., The book of Daniel is a part of the apocalyptic literature of the Bible.

7.In a biblical or theological paper, the Bible references are commonly placed in parentheses directly in the text. In English it has been accepted practice that no version is indicated when one uses the King James Version (KJV). Any version other than the KJV must be indicated. This is usually done in a footnote.

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