The departments of Bible & Theology, Church Ministries, and Intercultural Studies at Nelson University published the third edition of its Style Guide in 2026. The Style Guide is essentially a curated version of the latest edition of A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian. There is specific guidance on tools that are common to our discipline-lexicons, specific types of commentaries-based on guidance from the SBL Handbook of Style 2nd edition. If you are using an app or website for formatting, set it to Turabian or Chicago + notes, bibliography and then check the results against our style guide. The Style Guide is at https://nelson.libguides.com/styleguide, or it can be downloaded from this page as an Adobe PDF file.

What follows is a series of BibTheo links that host separate sections of the Style Guide, interspersed with additional information that is useful for conducting research.

For Further Reading

• Purdue’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) – https://owl.purdue.edu/
• The Writing Center (UNC at Chapel Hill) – https://writingcenter.unc.edu/
• Turabian Citation Quick Guide Page – The Chicago Manual of Style – https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/turabian/citation-guide.html
• Student Supplement for The SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd ed. – https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/sblhssupp2015-02.pdf

For Planning Time to spend in Research

• Center for the Advancement of Teaching. “Workload Estimator 2.0.” Wake Forest University. Online: https://cat.wfu.edu/resources/tools/estimator2/
• Center for Teaching Excellent. “Course Workload Estimator.” Rice University. Online: https://cte.rice.edu/workload