Introduction to Academic Reading and Writing: MLA, APA, SBL

Video by Cliff Barbarick (Uploaded April 18, 2019). The video showcases how to navigate Word documents to format your essay in the SBL style. The formatting methods introduced here are block quotes, footnotes, bibliography, title page, headings, and page numbers.

Essay Format

• Front/Title Page
• Titles and Headings Format
• Page number

Citation Format

• Formatting the Footnote Citation
• Formatting the Footnote Citation on Google Doc
• Formatting Block Quotes
• Formatting the Bibliography Page 
• Formatting the Bibliography page in Google Doc
• Hanging Indentation on Google Doc
• Hanging Indentation on Word
• Alphabetizing your References
• Purchasing the SBL Second Edition Handbook 

• Title Page 
• Order of Pages 
• Headings 
• In Text Citations 
• References