Lacie is finishing a paper about Jesus quoting the Psalms in the Bible. How do you cite the footnotes with explanations from the Bible? Pitts Theology suggests treating the notes as articles from an ‘edited volume’. As a Catholic, we use The New American Bible, the one read at Mass. We use the Didache Bible, too. The Didache Bible has more details about the sources for the notes in the footnotes. For example, in one note for Psalm 118, the author quotes St. John Paul II or the Catechism. The Didache Bible has a chief editor. This citation is straightforward.
We may use Purdue’s Bible citation for both The New American Bible and the Didache Bible and call it a day. Frankly, I tend to overthink these questions. Lacie isn’t submitting her paper for publication.
I researched who did the most recent revisions for The New American Bible and the list of editors and collaborators is long. It looks as though a large committee worked on the footnotes. My plan is to cite the Bishops’ Committee of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine as part of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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