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How to Cite Sources in SBL and Format Papers: Encyclopedia and Lexicon Entries

Entry in Reference Book including Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - SBL 2nd ed. - 6.3.6, Turabian 9th edition - 17.9.1

Reference Page/Bibliography (per SBL Student Supplement)

Stendahl, K. “Biblical Theology, Contemporary.” Pages 418–32 in vol. 1 of The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by G. A. Buttrick. 4 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 1962.

When multiple articles from the same dictionary or encyclopedia have been used, list the work as a whole under the editor in the bibliography, but cite the individual authors and articles in the footnote as below.

Freedman, David Noel, ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Reference Page  (per SBL Manual of Style 2nd ed. whether 1 or multiple articles from the same dictionary have been used.

Stendahl, Krister. “Biblical Theology, Contemporary.” IDB 1:418–32.

First Citation

33 Krister Stendahl, “Biblical Theology, Contemporary,” IDB 1:418–32.

Other Citations

36 Stendahl, “Biblical Theology,” 1:419.

Entry in a Lexicon or Word Study Theological Dictionary - SBL 2nd ed. - 6.3.7, Turabian 9th edition - 17.9.1

Reference Page  (per SBL Manual of Style 2nd ed.)

Brown, Colin, ed. New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. 4 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975–1985.

First Citation

3 K. Dahn, W. Liefeld, “See, Vision, Eye,” NIDNTT 3:511–21.

Other Citations

29 Dahn, NIDNTT 3:511.

NOTE: When an entry is in Hebrew or Greek, such as in the unabridged TDNT or NIDOTTE, the SBL Student Supplement Manual allows you to use transliteration for the cited entry.  See the SBL Manual of Style 5.1 for Hebrew and  5.3 for the system for Greek.  If you shorten the entry title in Greek, use κτλ for etc.

SPECIAL EXAMPLE FOR ABRIDGED TDNT AKA "LITTLE KITTEL" 
Reference Page

Kittel, Gerhard, and Gerhard Friedrich, eds. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Abr. ed. Translated and abridged by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.

First Citation

For the discussion of a word or a family of words, give the entire title and page range of the article:

3. G. Schrenck, "dike, dikaios [justice, just/righteous], etc.," TDNT, abr. ed., 168-177.

For the discussion of a specific word in an article covering a larger group of words, name just the word discussed and those pages on which it is discussed.

23. G. Schrenck, "dikaiosyne [justification]," TDNT , abr. ed., 171-175.
 

Other Citations

25. Schrenck, TNDT, abr. ed., 172.