Preferred Standard Abbreviations
List of Abbreviations
If abbreviations do not appear below, please spell out the word or words. Please also note that some abbreviations appear in italics (i.e., underlined in the manuscript) others do not.
1. Biblical books: Separate chapter and verse with a period, not a colon. Names of biblical books are never italicized. No period after abbreviation of book.
Gen | 1-2 Macc | Amos | 1-2 Cor |
Exod | Job | Obad | Gal |
Lev | Ps | Jonah | Eph |
Num | Prov | Mic | Phil |
Deut | Eccl | Nah | Col |
Josh | Cant (or Song) | Hab | 1-2 Thess |
Judg | Wis | Zeph | 1-2 Tim |
Ruth | Sir | Hag | Titus |
1-2 Sam | Isa | Zech | Phlm |
1-2 Kgs | Jer | Mal | Heb |
1-2 Chr | Lam | Matt | Jas |
Ezra | Bar | Mark | 1-2 Pet |
Neh | Ezek | Luke | 1-2-3 John |
Tob | Dan | John | Jude |
Jdt | Hos | Acts | Rev |
Esth | Joel | Rom |
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | V | Z
AASOR The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
AASSActa Sanctorum (Paris, 1863-1925)
ABAnalecta Bollandiana
AbhAbhandlungen (followed by name of Academy, abbreviated, and by class)
ACOActa conciliorum oecomenicorum, ed. E. Schwartz
ActaSSActa Sanctorum Bollandiana (1643- )
ACWAncient Christian Writers
AegAegyptus
AERAmerican Ecclesiastical Review
AJArchaeological Journal
AJAAmerican Journal of Archaeology
AJAHAmerican Journal of Ancient History
AJNAmerican Journal of Numismatics
AJPAmerican Journal of Philology
AJSLLAmerican Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature
ALWArchiv für Liturgiewissenschaft
ANFA Select Library of Ante-Nicene Christian Fathers
AnOrAnalecta Orientalia
ANRWAufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt (followed by Roman numeral of series, and Arabic numeral[s] of volume number, date of publications in parentheses, and page numbers: e.g., ANRW II.33.6 [1992]: 4709-23).
AntAbAntike und Abendland
AntCL'antiquité classique
AOFArchiv für Orientforschung
AOLArchives de l'orient latin
APL'année philologique
APFArchiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
ARAtene e Roma
ARWArchiv für Religionswissenschaft
ATRAnglican Theological Review
AugAugustinianum
AugStAugustinian Studies
BA Bibliothéque augustinienne
BA The Biblical Archaeolgist
BAC Bulletino de Archeologia cristiana
BALAC Bulletin d'ancienne littérature et d'archéologie chrétienne
BAR Biblical Archaeology Review
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Researchi
BEFAR Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome
BHG3 Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca, 3rd ed. (Brussels 1957)
BHL Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis, 2 vols.
BHO Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (Brussels 1910)
BKV Bibliothek der Kirchenväter
BLE Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique
BO Bibliotheca orientalis
Bonn ed. Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (Bonn 1828-97) (with date of volume in parentheses)
BSA The Annual of the British School at Athens
BSR Papers of the British School at Rome
Bull Comm Bullettino della commissione archeologica communale di Roma
Byz Byzantion
ByzArch Byzantinische Archiv
ByzF Byzantinische Forschungen
ByzZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
BZ Biblische Zeitschrift
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CCA Corpus Christianorum, series apocrypha
CCG Corpus Christianorum, series graeca
CCL Corpus Christianorum, series latina
CF Classical Folia
CFHB Corpus Fontum Historiae Byzantinae
CH Church History
CHR Catholic Historical Review
CIA Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum
CIC Corpus Iuris Civilis, 3 vols.
Subdivisions:
CI Codex Iustinianius
Dig Digesta
Inst Institutiones
Nov Novellae
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum
CIJ Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
CIS Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum
CJ Classical Journal
CM Classica et Mediaevalia
Comm. Commentarius
CP Classical Philology
CPG Clavis Patrum Graecorum (Turnhout 1983- ).
CQ Classical Quarterly
CR Classical Review
CSCO Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium (indicate volume and
CSEL Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum
CTh Codex Theodosianus (ed. Mommsen and Meyer)
CWS Classics of Western Spirituality
DAB Dictionnaire d'archéologie biblique
DACL Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie
DB Dictionnaire de la bible
DCB Dictionary of Christian Biography
DDC Dictionnaire de droit canonique
DHGE Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastique
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
DOS Dumbarton Oaks Studies
DSAM Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique, doctrine et historie (give volume number and year in parentheses)
EB Etudes byzantines
EEC Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, rev., 2 vols.
EC Enciclopedia cattolica
EI Encyklopädie des Islams
EI2 Encyklopädie des Islams, rev.
EL Ephemerides liturgicae
EO Echos d'orient
ep(p). Epistle(s)
ER Encyclopedia of Religion
ERE Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics
ETL Ephemerides theologicae lovaniensis
FC Fathers of the Church
FGH Fragmenta historicum graecorum (Paris 1841-70)
GCS Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten [drei] Jahrhunderte
GOTR Greek Orthodox Theological Review
GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Greg Gregorianum
Herm Hermes
Hist Historia
hom. Homilia(e)
HR History of Religions
HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
HTR Harvard Theological Review
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
IG Inscriptiones graecae
IGL SyrInscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (Paris 1929-70)
IGRRP2 Inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes, 2nd ed. (1964)
ILCV Inscriptiones latinae christianae veteres, 3 vols. (Berlin 1924-31)
ILS Inscriptiones latinae selectae (Berlin 1892-1916)
JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JbAC Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum
JbOB Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies
JEH Journal of Ecclesiastical History
JFSR Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
JHP Journal of the History of Philosophy
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JJS Journal of Jewish Studies
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JP Journal of Philology
JPOS Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society
JR Journal of Religion
JRS Journal of Roman Studies
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament
JTS (n.s.) Journal of Theological Studies (new series)
LCC Library of Christian Classics
LCI Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie, 2 vols. (Rome 1968-70)
LCL Loeb Classical Library
LF Library of the Fathers
LTK Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche
LXX Septuagint, The Seventy
Mansi J. D. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Subdivisions (followed by place and date of publication in parentheses):
1. AA Auctores Antiquissimi
2. Briefe Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit
3. Capit Capitularia regum Francorum
4. Conc Concilia
5. Const Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et
6. Ep., Epp. Epistola, Epistolae
7. GestPontRom Gesta pontificum Romanorum
MSR Mélanges de sciences religieuses
MusLe Muséon
NCE New Catholic Encyclopedia
NHL Nag Hammadi Library
NHS Nag Hammadi (and Manichaean) Studies
NPNFA Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (2nd series unless otherwise indicated)
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
NRT Nouvelle revue théologique
NT Novum Testamentum
NTS New Testament Studies
OC Orientalia Christiana
OCA Orientalia Christiana Analecta
OCD Oxford Classical Dictionary
OCP Orientalia Christiana Periodica
ODB Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
ODCC Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
OECT Oxford Early Christian Texts
OGIS Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae, 2 vols.
OKS Ostkirchliche Studien
or. Oratio
OrChr Oriens Christianus
OrSyr L'Orient syrien
PAPS Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
PG Patrologia Graeca
PL Patrologia Latina
PLRE Jones et al., eds., The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, 2 vols.
PLS Patrologia Latina Supplementum
PM SPatristic Monograph Series
PO Patrologia Orientalis
PS Patrologia Syriaca
RA Revue archéologique
RAC Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum
RAM Revue d'ascétique et de mystique
RB Revue biblique
RBenRevue bénedictine
RE Realencyklopädie der classichsen Altertumswissenschaft
REA Revue des études anciennes
REAug Revue des études augustiniennes
REB Revue des études byzantines
RecAugRecherches augustiniennes
RELRevue des études latines
RevSR Revue de sciences religieuses
RSR Religious Studies Review
RHE Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique
ROC Revue de l'orient chrétien
RQ Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte
RQH Revue de questiones historiques
RSPT Revue de sciences philosophiques et théologiques
RSV Revised Standard Version
RTP Revue de théologie et de philosophie
SB Sitzungberichte (followed by name of Academy, abbreviated)
SBL Society of Biblical Literature
SC Sources chrétiennes
SCe Second Century
serm. Sermon
SH Subsidia hagiographica
SP Studia Patristica
ST Studi e Testi
SVF Stoicorum veterum fragmenta (Teubner, 1903-24)
SW Studies in Woman and Religion
SynCPSynaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae. Propylaeum ad Acta sanctorum Novembris, ed. H. Delehaye (Brussels, 1902)
TAPA Transactions of the American Philological Association
TAPS Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
TLG Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
TLZ Theologische Literaturezeitung
TQ Theologische Quartalschrift
TP Theologie und Philosophie
TS Theological Studies
TSK Theologische Studien und Kritiken
TSt Texts and Studies
TU Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur
VC Vigiliae Christianae
VetC Vetera Christianorum
ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentlich Wissenschaft
ZCK Zeitschrit für christliche Kunst
ZKG Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte
ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentlische Wissenschaft und die Kunde
der älteren Kirche
ZDPV Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins
ZTK Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
ZWT Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie