{"id":281,"date":"2026-09-02T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:05:01","slug":"christian-science-citing-conventions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/?page_id=281","title":{"rendered":"CS Citing Conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Textbook Citations (<em>Science and Health<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Citations for the textbook are formatted using the <strong>page number followed by a colon and the starting line number<\/strong> (e.g. 427:2\u20137). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They utilize the following specific abbreviations in parentheses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>(only):<\/strong> Read only the designated line or sentence, omitting the rest of the paragraph.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(to :):<\/strong> Read from the beginning of the line or sentence up to the first <strong>colon<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(to ;):<\/strong> Read from the beginning up to the first <strong>semicolon<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(to .):<\/strong> Read from the beginning up to the first <strong>period<\/strong> (used when stopping mid-paragraph or mid-sentence).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[No indicator]:<\/strong> Read from the specified starting line to the very <strong>end of the paragraph<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bible Citations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bible references use standard book abbreviations followed by the chapter and verse numbers (e.g., Job 28:12, 13\u201320). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To isolate specific clauses within a single verse, they incorporate text-matching markers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>[Verse Number] [Word]:<\/strong> If a verse citation is followed by a specific word (e.g., Mark 1:8 John 3:28 I said), the reader starts precisely at that word inside the verse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(to first :):<\/strong> Stop reading at the very first colon encountered in that verse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>let, etc.:<\/strong> Lowercase letters or catch-words are sometimes included next to a verse number to indicate exactly which sub-phrase or clause to begin with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textbook Citations (Science and Health) Citations for the textbook are formatted using the page number followed by a colon and the starting line number (e.g. 427:2\u20137). They utilize the following specific abbreviations in parentheses: Bible Citations Bible references use standard book abbreviations followed by the chapter and verse numbers (e.g., Job 28:12, 13\u201320). To isolate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianscienceexplained.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}