presentation of essays and assignments 1. DATES FOR MAJOR ESSAYS The due dates for essays and assignments will be notified by the
lecturer in each unit. 2. DEADLINES, 2.1 During office hours essays and assignments are to be handed in at the Stirling office on or before the due date. The date you submit your essay will be entered on the official cover page of your essay by the administration staff and noted in a ledger. Outside office hours essays may be lodged in the slot provided next to the reception window or they may be given to the faculty member who will register the date and pass them on to the office for recording in the ledger. Dreadful penalties apply for late submission of essays/assignments received after the agreed date - see: Stirling policy regarding special consideration Stirling policy regarding late work Stirling policy
regarding extensions 2.2 No
assignments will be accepted by fax or electronic mail. 3. PRESENTATION 3.1 Essays are to be typed
on A4 paper. Handwritten manuscripts will not be accepted. 3.2 Two copies of each
essay are to be submitted, unless otherwise advised. This is necessary because
a copy must be retained for scrutiny by the second examiner. The other copy will
be returned to the student together with the first examiner's comments and grade.
3.3 The pages of each essay should be stapled
together.
4. ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET 4.1 The assignment cover sheet must be completed
and attached to each copy of assignment. Late submissions are made on another
sheet. 5
TEXT 5.1 Setting out Typing
should be either double-spaced (except for longer quotations
- see 5.2), with margins of at least 2.5 cm on all four sides. 5.2 Quotations Short
quotations up to about three lines in length belong in the body of the text, enclosed
in quotation marks.
All
quotations must be acknowledged in footnotes, endnotes or in-text citations. Paraphrases
and indirect quotations are not placed in quotation marks, though the source of
the material should still be acknowledged. Information
derived on-line must be cited fully and consistently. 5.3 Scripture references
When
a quotation from the Bible is used, the scripture reference should be given in
the main body of the text and placed in brackets. Example:
"Render
unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's."
(Mt 22:21b) When
specific references are given, the names of the books of the Bible are to be abbreviated,
without a following full-stop. A consistent method of indicating chapter and verse
should be followed. When a reference is not exact, the name of the book should
be written in full (eg. Romans 8). 6 REFERENCE SYSTEMS Students
may use either the note-bibliography (N-B) system (preferred
by Stirling faculty), which uses footnotes (or endnotes) and
a bibliography, or the author-date (A-D) system, with in-text
citations and a reference list. Students may be directed to use
the appropriate system by their lecturer. For full details of each system, see a manual such as The ACU Study Guide (North Sydney, Australian Catholic University, 1999), available at the Stirling Reception counter for a few dollars. There are many guides to citation on the Internet. Stirling recommends the 'Turabian Style Guide' on the Stirling web site, which allows either footnotes or author-date citation. This is the style preferred by Melbourne College of Divinity for research papers, theses, and dissertations. This
style is similar to the 'Chicago style.' Click
here to download a helpful guide to the Chicago style from Purdue University
(Indiana, USA) A
basic description is provided here.
7 THE NOTE-BIBLIOGRAPHY SYSTEM
(N-B) Footnoted
and endnoted references have traditionally been the
more common system in theology and the humanities. When
a reference is cited in the N-B system numbers appear in the text, corresponding
to either footnotes (at the bottom of the page) or endnotes (at the end of the
paper). The bibliographical information is repeated, in slightly different form,
in a bibliography at the end of the paper. 7.1
Footnotes and endnotes References
in notes are distinguished from those in bibliographies by showing the author's
given name first, using commas instead of full-stops, and using brackets around
the publication details. Shortened
titles prefaced by the author's surname are sufficient for references to works
cited previously, including sequential references. The use of the Latin terms
‘Ibid.’ and Op.Cit.’, though allowable, is discouraged
these days. The
information required, as well as its order and punctuation, is illustrated by
the examples below, covering books, journal articles, edited books, book sections
and abbreviated references. Examples
of footnotes/endnotes of various types: 1
Lesslie Newbigin, Proper confidence:
Faith, doubt and certainty in Christian discipleship (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1995), 16-28. 2
Mortimer Arias, “The Jubilee: A paradigm for mission today,” International
Review of Mission 73 (1984): 32-48. 3
Donald English, ed., Windows on salvation (London: Darton
Longman and Todd, 1994).
4
James A Scherer and Stephen B Bevans, eds., New directions in mission and evangelization, 1:
Basic statements, 1974-1991 (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1992).
5
Charles Sherlock, “Many flowers, one fragrance: The scriptural witness to multiculturalism,”
in The cultured pearl: Australian readings
in cross-cultural theology and mission, ed. Jim Houston (Melbourne: Joint
Board of Christian Education, 1986), 42-50. 6
Baptist Peace Fellowship of 7
Larry Nemer, [nemer@mdx.ac.uk], “Gospel and culture
in the 8
Sherlock, “Many flowers”, 46.
9
Arias, "The Jubilee", 37.
10
Dae Ryong Kim, "Is Karl Barth
a postmodern theologian?",
7.2
The bibliography (in the N-B system)
Examples:
Arias,
Mortimer. “The Jubilee: A paradigm for mission today.” International Review
of Baptist Peace Fellowship of English,
Donald, ed. Windows on salvation. Kim,
Dae Ryong "Is Karl Barth
a postmodern theologian?",
Nemer, Larry. [nember@mdx.ac.uk].
“Gospel and culture in the Newbigin, Lesslie. Proper
confidence: Faith, doubt and certainty in Christian discipleship. Scherer,
James A and Stephen B Bevans, eds.
New directions in mission and evangelization, 1: Basic statements, 1974-1991.
Maryknoll: Orbis, 1992. Sherlock,
Charles. “Many flowers, one fragrance: The scriptural witness to multiculturalism.”
In The cultured pearl: Australian readings in cross-cultural theology and mission,
ed. Jim Houston. (If
web addresses need to be broken across two lines, break them after a forward slash)
8
THE
AUTHOR-DATE SYSTEM (A-D) The
A-D system, also known as the Harvard system, is common in the social sciences
and is increasingly being used in theology and the humanities. It
presents the full bibliographical information only once, in an alphabetical list
of references, and dispenses with footnotes for references by using citations
in the body of the text containing author, date and perhaps page, all in parentheses.
Footnotes or endnotes may still be used minimally for comments. 8.1
Citing references within the text
Examples
Teilhard saw spirit and matter almost as if they
were the inside and outside of things (Santmire 1985:
160; McDonagh 1989: 79). McFague (1987) has developed the connection between
metaphor in theology and the ecological sense. In
a 1990 article, Kelly explored the connections between the Catholic tradition
and ecological thinking. (Birch,
Eakin and McDaniel 1990) in subsequent citations would be
(Birch et al 1990). (Victorian
Council of Churches Task Group on the Environment 1993) in subsequent citations
could be (VCC 1993). (D
(Birch
1990a, 1990b, 1993) 8.2
Reference list A reference list in the
author-date system appears at the end of a paper and differs from a bibliography
(in the N-B system) by listing the date of publication after the author's name
and before all other details. Like the bibliography (N-B)
it is an alphabetical list of all works actually referred to in the text, with
surnames first, the use of full-stops and no brackets around publication details.
The examples below show
the information required and the order in which it should appear, for various
types of references. Variations are permissible,
such as enclosing the date in parentheses, putting the author's name on a separate
line, and using various ways of indenting the information following the author
and date. Consistency and clarity are the criteria to be used. Examples:
Birch,
Charles, William Eakin and Jay B McDaniel, eds. 1990. Liberating life: contemporary
approaches to ecological theology. Maryknoll: Orbis. Fox,
Matthew. 1981a. "Meister Eckhart on the fourfold
path of a creation-centred spiritual journey." In Western
spirituality, ed. Matthew Fox. _________
1981b. Whee! We,
We, all the way home: a guide to sensual, prophetic spirituality.
Kelly,
Tony. 1990. “Wholeness: Ecological and Catholic?” Santmire, H Paul. 1985. The travail of nature: the ambiguous
ecological promise of Christian theology. Victorian
Council of Churches Task Group on the Environment. 1993. Environment matters: a Christian
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