Style Sheet (Murphy, SCU)



	Style Sheet

The purpose of this guide is to provide formatting directions for the papers you will write in your course. This guide also includes video tutorials for the three most common word processing applications—Microsoft Word, Apple’s Pages, and Google Docs—so that you can learn how to use them to do much of this formatting work.

The guide is divided into three main parts:

paper format

citation

templates

Click here for a citation infographic that lays out the principles of citation.

Paper Format

This section of the guide specifies the margins, type-face, pagination, and heading requirements for papers.

Margins Set your left and right margins at 1.25 inches and your top and bottom margins at 1 inch.	Word	Pages	GDocs

Type-Face Use Times or Times New Roman 12 pt type for your papers.	Word	Pages	GDocs

Pagination Add page numbers in the top right, bottom right, or bottom center of your pages. No name, paper title, or punctuation is needed with the page number in the header or footer.	Word	Pages	GDocs

Separate Title Page Set your left and right margins at 1.25 inches and your top and bottom margins at 1 inch.	Word	Pages	GDocs

Heading Every paper should have a heading on the first page (this is not a header, which lies above the 1-inch top margin, but a heading, starting at the top of the text box on the page). The heading should have your name on the first line, the course number and name on the second line, the name of the assignment on the third line, and the date of submission on the fourth line. The heading should be single-spaced, even if the rest of the paper is double-spaced. Set the Title of your paper (centered) or, if there is no title, the first line of your paper, two lines below the bottom of your heading.

Citation

When you integrate the ideas or words of another person in your paper, it is important to cite them properly. This is a necessary academic discipline—one that requires you to attend carefully to your sources, to acknowledge your dependence on them in your education, and to guide your reader to them if they would like to check or read more deeply. In this way, proper citation is a practice of both humility and hospitality, which are important academic virtues. Of course, proper citation also models academic integrity, which is an expectation of all students at Santa Clara University.

There are two primary citation systems used in the academy—the “citation-sequence” or “notes-bibliography” system used in the humanities, and the “author-date” system used in the social sciences and sciences.

This style manual follows the citation-sequence or notes-bibliography system. Each note corresponds to a unique raised number placed at the end of the sentence in which the cited phrase or idea occurs, after the closing period.

All word processing programs have an insert menu that allows you to insert footnotes or references: place the cursor after the period, insert the note or reference, and type your citation. The program inserts the raised number for you, opens a corresponding note at the bottom of page (or end of document), and automatically keeps the numbers in sequence.

Word

Pages

GDocs

In the citation-sequence or notes-bibliography system, you also include a final separate page for your bibliography. This page lists everything you read for the paper, even if you did not cite all the sources in your footnotes (in this way, it differs from the Works Cited page used in the author-date system, which only cites sources parenthetically noted in the body of the paper).

The bibliography is single-spaced and organized alphabetically by author’s last name. To help isolate those last names, a hanging indent is used to “hang” all lines but the first in ½-inch from the left margin. Word processors make both alphabetization and hanging indents easy.

Word

Pages

GDocs

For both your footnotes and bibliography, you still need to know what information to put in the notes, in what order and with what punctuation. The examples below differ somewhat on elements and punctuation, depending on what type of source you are citing: for example, a book is cited one way, while there are slightly different elements in the citation of a journal article or essay in an edited volume. In addition, in footnotes, you will cite your source fully the first time, but subsequent citations can be shortened. Therefore, for each example below, we provide the two forms for footnotes (initial complete citation, subsequent shortened note), and then the citation you would use in your bibliography.

Another important point is that notes only reference the page on which the citation or idea is found, while the full page range of the article or chapter is cited only in the bibliography.

Note that the footnotes are customarily formatted in 10-pt type, while the bibliography, like the body of the paper, is formatted in 12-pt type. Our examples below are based on The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed.

General Format

Notes (text is 10pt)

Bibliography (text is 12pt)

Shortcuts

Print Bible (NRSV)	Book	Work of Art
Online Bible (NRSV)	eBook	Illumination
Online Bible (NABRE)	Dissertation	Music downloaded from Commercial Vendor
Qurʾan	Chapter or Essay in an Edited Book	Audio File downloaded online
Papal Encyclical	Chapter in a Book by a Single Author	Audio Recording (not downloaded)
Conciliar Document/ Church Teaching	Film/Motion Picture	Musical Composition (sheet music)
Journal Article	Online Video	Class Lecture
Online Source	Online Image	Class Web site
	Interview	Blog post

Print Bible (NRSV)

Note

² Bruce M. Metzger et al., eds., The Holy Bible (NRSV) (Washington, D.C.: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1989).

Shortened Note

You never need to cite the Bible after the first time you cite it fully, because your parenthetical (Book ch:vs) references in the body of the paper are enough to guide the reader to the location of your citation, and in your first footnote you’ve provided the reader with the version you’re using.

Bibliography

Metzger, Bruce M. et al., eds. The Holy Bible (NRSV). Washington, D.C.: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1989.

Online Bible (NRSV)

Note

³ Bruce M. Metzger et al., eds., The Holy Bible (NRSV) (Washington, D.C.: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1989), online, http://biblia.com/books/nrsv/[rest of url of your specific citation, indicating book ch:vs], accessed [your access date]

Shortened Note

Bibliography

Metzger, Bruce M. et al., eds. The Holy Bible (NRSV). Washington, D.C.: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1989. Online, http://biblia.com/ books/nrsv/[rest of url of your specific citation, indicating book ch:vs], accessed [your access date].

Online Bible (NABRE)

Note

⁴ United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) (Washington, D.C.: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970), online, http://www.usccb.org/bible/[rest of url of your specific citation, indicating book ch:vs], accessed [your access date].

Shortened Note

Bibliography

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE). Washington, D.C.: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970. Online, www.usccb.org/bible/[rest of url of your specific citation, indicating book ch:vs], accessed [your access date].

Qurʾān

Note

⁵ ʿAbdullah Yūsuf ʾAli, The Meaning of the Holy Qurʾān (9th ed.; Beltsville, Maryland: Amana, 1989), online, http://www.islam101.com/quran/yusufAli/[rest of url of your specific citation, indicating surah and ayat], accessed [your access date].

Shortened Note

You never need to cite the Qurʾān after the first time you cite it fully, because your parenthetical (surah:aya[t]) references in the body of the paper are enough to guide the reader to the location of your citation.

Bibliography

ʿAli, ʿAbdullah Yūsuf. The Meaning of the Holy Qurʾān, 9th ed. Beltsville, Maryland: Amana, 1989. Online, http://www.islam101.com/quran/
yusufAli/[rest of url of your specific citation, indicating surah and ayat], accessed [your access date].

Papal Encyclical

Note

⁶ Francis I, Evangelii Gaudium [The Joy of the Gospel], Vatican website (24 November 2013), sec., para., or line #, online, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/
documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html, accessed [date you accessed website].

Shortened Note

⁷ Evangelii Gaudium, sec., para., or line#.

Bibliography

Francis I. Evangelii Gaudium [The Joy of the Gospel]. Vatican website (24 November 2013) sec., para., or line #. Online, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/ apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_ evangelii-gaudium.html, accessed [date you accessed website].

n.b. When citing a url, pull as much as you can up to fill out each line by placing your cursor after a back- slash and clicking shift + return to create a line break (line breaks won’t disrupt your hanging indent).

Conciliar Document/Church Teaching

Note

⁸ Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum [Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation], Vatican website (18 November 1965) sec. #, online, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/
ii_vatican_council/ documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html, accessed [date you accessed website].

Shortened Note

⁹ Dei Verbum, sec. #.

Bibliography

Second Vatican Council. Dei Verbum [Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation]. Vatican website (18 November 1965) sec. #. Online, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/
documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html, accessed [date you accessed website].

Book

Note

¹⁰ Eugene R. Schlesinger, Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology (Emerging Scholars; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017) 146.

Shortened Note

¹¹ Schlesinger, Missa Est!, 34.

Bibliography

Schlesinger, Eugene R. Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology, Emerging Scholars. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017.

eBook

Note

¹² Warren Carter and Amy-Jill Levine, The New Testament: Methods and Meanings (Abingdon, 2013-11-19) Kindle Locations 1122-1123.

Shortened Note

¹³ Carter and Levine, The New Testament, Kindle Location 1124.

Bibliography

Dissertation

Note

¹⁴ Roberto Mata, “Empire and Ekklēsia: Mapping the Function of Ekklēsia Rhetoric in The Book of Revelation” (Th.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2015) 43.

Shortened Note

¹⁵ Mata, “Empire and Ekklēsia,” 96.

Bibliography

Mata, Roberto. “Empire and Ekklēsia: Mapping the Function of Ekklēsia Rhetoric in The Book of Revelation.” Th.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2015.

Chapter or Essay in an Edited Book
Editors may appear before the parentheses, separated from the title by a comma

Note

¹⁶ Frederick J. Parrella, “Tillich and Contemporary Spirituality,” in Paul Tillich: A New Catholic Assessment (ed. Raymond F. Bulman and Frederick J. Parrella; Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1994) 256.

Shortened Note

¹⁷ Parrella, “Tillich and Contemporary Spirituality,” 253.

Bibliography

Parrella, Frederick J. “Tillich and Contemporary Spirituality.” In Paul Tillich: A New Catholic Assessment (ed. Raymond F. Bulman and Frederick J. Parrella; Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1994) 241-267.

Chapter in a Book by a Single Author

Note

¹⁸ Maxine Lavon Montgomery, “Toni Morrison, Sula,” in The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996) 74-6.

Shortened Note

¹⁹ Montgomery, “Toni Morrison, Sula,” 85.

Bibliography

Montgomery, Maxine Lavon. “Toni Morrison, Sula.” In The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996) 15-27.

Journal Article

Note

²⁰ Sharon L. McMillan, “Serving at Table: Symbols and Texts in the Ordination of Deacons,” Liturgical Ministry 13 (2004) 34.

Shortened Note

²¹ McMillan, “Serving at Table,” 36.

Bibliography

McMillan, Sharon L. “Serving at Table: Symbols and Texts in the Ordination of Deacons.” Liturgical Ministry 13 (2004) 32-38.

Online Source

Note

²² Susan Sachs, “Egypt Makes It Easier for Women to Divorce Husbands,” The New York Times International (28 January 2000), online, http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/0128egypt-divorce.html, accessed [your access date; remove brackets once supplied].

Shortened Note

²³ Sachs, “Egypt Makes It Easier for Women to Divorce Husbands.”

Bibliography

Sachs, Susan. “Egypt Makes It Easier for Women to Divorce Husbands.” The New York Times International (28 January 2000). Online, http://www.nytimes.com/library/ world/mideast/0128egypt-divorce.html, accessed [your access date; remove brackets once supplied].

Film/Motion Picture

Note

²⁴ The Passion of the Christ, prod. Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey and Stephen McEveety, dir. Mel Gibson, 126 min., Icon Productions, 2004, DVD.

Shortened Note

²⁵ The Passion of the Christ, 1.04.

Bibliography

The Passion of the Christ. Produced by Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey and Stephen McEveety; directed by Mel Gibson. 126 min. Icon Productions, 2004. DVD.

Online Video

Note

²⁶ Sam Harris, Can We Build AI without Losing Control Over It? (TED Talk, 2016), online video, https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without_losing_control_over_it, 14:27 minutes.

Shortened Note

²⁷ Harris, Can We Build AI, 10:15

Bibliography

Harris, Sam. Can We Build AI without Losing Control Over It? TED Talk, 2016. Online video, https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without_ losing_control_over_it, 14:27 minutes.

Online Image

Note

²⁸ Adrian Pingstone (Arpingstone), "Illuminated.bible.closeup.arp.jpg," Wikimedia Commons (uploaded 1 March 2005), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illuminated.bible.closeup. arp.jpg, accessed 6 October 2019.

Shortened Note

²⁹ Pingstone, "Illuminated.bible.closeup.arp.jpg."

Bibliography

Pingstone, Adrian (Arpingstone). "Illuminated.bible.closeup.arp.jpg." Wikimedia Commons (uploaded 1 March 2005). Online, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:Illuminated.bible.closeup.arp.jpg, accessed 6 October 2019.

Interview

Note

³⁰ Esmerelda Ortiz, Director of Sacred Heart Community Services, Interview by author, 18 February 2000, San José.

Shortened Note

³¹ Ortiz interview.

Bibliography

Ortiz, Esmerelda, Director of Sacred Heart Community Services. Interview by author, 18 February 2000, San José.

Work of Art

Note

³² Michelangelo Buonaroti, Moses, 1513–1515, marble, 92.5 inches, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.

Shortened Note

³³ Michelangelo, Moses.

Bibliography

Michelangelo Buonaroti. Moses. 1513–1515. Marble. 92.5 inches. San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.

Illumination

Note

³⁴ Donald Jackson, Creation, 2003, ink on parchment, The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota; reproduced in facsimile in The Heritage Edition, Santa Clara University Archives, Santa Clara, California.

Shortened Note

³⁵ Jackson, Creation.

Bibliography

Jackson, Donald. Creation. 2003. Ink on parchment. The Saint John’s Bible. Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Reproduced in facsimile in The Heritage Edition. Santa Clara University Archives, Santa Clara, California.

Music File downloaded as an MP3 from a Commercial Vendor (e.g., iTunes)

Note

³⁶ Five for Fighting, “100 Years,” The Battle for Everything, Columbia/Aware, 2004, MP3 file, downloaded 5 October 2015, iTunes.

Shortened Note

³⁷ Five for Fighting, “100 Years.”

Bibliography

Five for Fighting. “100 Years.” The Battle for Everything. Columbia/Aware. 2004. MP3 file. Downloaded 5 October 2015. iTunes.

Audio File downloaded online

Note

³⁸ Billy Graham, Evangelism and the Intellectual, Part 1, American Sermon Recordings, 1 April 1962; 24 min., 19 sec; from SermonIndex.net, Revival Sermons at SermonIndex.net; MPEG, http://www.sermonindex.net/ modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=118 (accessed 1 June 2007).

Shortened Note

³⁹ Graham, Evangelism and the Intellectual.

Bibliography

Graham, Billy. Evangelism and the Intellectual, Part 1. American Sermon Recordings, 1 April 1962; 24 min., 19 sec. From SermonIndex.net, Revival Sermons at SermonIndex.net. MPEG, http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/ viewcat.php?cid=118, accessed 1 June 2007.

Musical Recording (not downloaded)

Note

⁴⁰ Billie Holliday, vocal performance of “I’m a Fool to Want You,” by Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, and Jack Wolf, recorded February 20, 1958, with Ray Ellis, on Lady in Satin, Columbia CL 1157, 33 1⁄3 rpm.

Shortened Note

⁴¹ Holiday, vocal performance of “I’m a Fool to Want You.”

Bibliography

Holliday, Billie. Vocal performance of “I’m a Fool to Want You,” by Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, and Jack Wolf. Recorded February 20, 1958, with Ray Ellis, on Lady in Satin (Columbia CL 1157, 33 1⁄3 rpm).

Musical Composition (sheet music)

Note

⁴² Ricky Manalo, “Worthy Is the Lamb,” in Beyond the Days: Liturgical Music for Lent, Triduum, and Easter (Portland, Oregon: Oregon Catholic Press, 1998).

Shortened Note

⁴³ Manalo, “Worthy Is the Lamb.”

Bibliography

Manalo, Ricky. “Worthy Is the Lamb.” In Beyond the Days: Liturgical Music for Lent, Triduum, and Easter (Portland, Oregon: Oregon Catholic Press, 1998).

Class Lecture

Note

⁴⁴ Catherine M. Murphy, “Gospel of Mark,” Course lecture for PMIN 206, The Synoptic Gospels, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, 17 April 2018.

Shortened Note

⁴⁵ Murphy, “Gospel of Mark.”

Bibliography

Murphy, Catherine M. “Gospel of Mark.” Course lecture for PMIN 206, The Synoptic Gospels. Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. 17 April 2018.

Class Web site

Note

⁴⁶ Catherine Murphy, “The Documentary Hypothesis: The Yahwist Source,” SCTR 15 Texting God, Santa Clara University (2017), online, https://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/cmurphy/
courses/sctr015/prep/exercises/ yahwist.htm, accessed [your access date; remove brackets once supplied].

Shortened Note

⁴⁷ Murphy, “The Documentary Hypothesis: The Yahwist Source.”

Bibliography

Murphy, Catherine. “The Documentary Hypothesis: The Yahwist Source.” SCTR 15 Texting God, Santa Clara University (2017). Online, https://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/cmurphy/courses/sctr015/prep/
exercises/yahwist.htm, accessed [your access date; remove brackets once supplied].

Blog Post

Note

⁴⁸ Patricia Miller, “Catholic Universities Facing a Fork in the Road on Gender & Sexuality: The Church or the Culture,” Religion Dispatches (blog), 21 November 2017, online, https://religiondispatches.org/catholic-universities-facing-a-fork-in-the-road-on-gender-sexuality-the-church-or-the-culture/, accessed [your access date; remove brackets once supplied].

Shortened Note

⁴⁹ Miller, “Catholic Universities Facing a Fork in the Road.”

Bibliography

Miller, Patricia. “Catholic Universities Facing a Fork in the Road on Gender & Sexuality: The Church or the Culture.” Religion Dispatches (blog). 21 November 2017. Online, https://religiondispatches.org/catholic-universities-facing-a-fork-in-the-road-on-gender-sexuality-the-church-or-the-culture/, accessed [your access date; remove brackets once supplied].

Templates

We provide three templates for each of the three major word-processing programs, one for a single-spaced paper, one for a double-spaced paper, and one for a research paper with a separate, unpaginated title page and a final bibliography page. These templates have the correct margins, type-face, pagination, and footnote settings built in.

To download a template, choose the type of paper you need and click on the link next to it that corresponds to your word processor. This will trigger a download of the template to your “Downloads” folder on your desktop, so look there for the template.

Single-spaced paper	Word	Pages	GDocs
Double-spaced paper	Word	Pages	GDocs
Double-spaced paper with unpaginated title page and bibliography page	Word	Pages	GDocs

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