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Citations at the end of a verse should be in parentheses with the period following: \u201cFor God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life\u201d (John 3:16).<\/em><\/p>\n

When a verse is being used as an epigraph at the beginning of a work, no quotation marks are needed; use an em dash before the citation: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. \u2014John 3:16\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Avoid abbreviating books of the Bible. Cite books, chapter, and verse(s) in this format: John 3:16, Luke 21:1-13; 2 Timothy 1:8, 1 Thessalonians, 3 John<\/em><\/p>\n

Lowercase \u201cverse\u201d and don\u2019t abbreviate when using in citation: (verse 2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Citations at the end of a verse should be in parentheses with the period following: \u201cFor God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life\u201d (John 3:16).<\/em><\/p>

When a verse is being used as an epigraph at the beginning of a work, no quotation marks are needed; use an em dash before the citation: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. \u2014John 3:16\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>

Avoid abbreviating books of the Bible. Cite books, chapter, and verse(s) in this format: John 3:16, Luke 21:1-13; 2 Timothy 1:8, 1 Thessalonians, 3 John<\/em><\/p>

Lowercase \u201cverse\u201d and don\u2019t abbreviate when using in citation: (verse 2).<\/p>","acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"glossary-categories":[{"value":1976,"label":"Writing Style Guide"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jeremy Tackett","author_link":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/author\/jtackett\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474909,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473726\/revisions\/3474909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=3473726"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=3473726"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-languages?post=3473726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}