Leeds Harvard: Religious text
Reference examples
Title: including version.
Examples:
The Bible: authorised King James version.
The Qurʼan: a modern English version.
Citation examples
Religious text
Make clear in the main body of the work which particular religious text you are referring to. When referring to a specific passage, include the following details in your citation:
(Name of the Book Sura / Chapter: Verse)
Example:
Cain's offering of crops (Genesis 4:3) has been interpreted as...
When citing whole consecutive chapters, combine the first and last chapter numbers with a hyphen: (Genesis 4-6)
When citing consecutive verses in a particular chapter, combine the first and last verse numbers with a hyphen: (Genesis 4:3-8)
If your work focuses on a single chapter in a religious work and you are citing only one verse, use the format (v.3). If referring to multiple consecutive verses, use the format (vv.3-8)
For religious texts, you do not include page numbers in your citations.
Common issues
When you're referencing with Leeds Harvard you may come across issues with missing details, multiple authors, edited books, references to another author's work or online items, to name a few. Here are some tips on how to deal with some common issues when using Leeds Harvard.
Skip straight to the issue that affects you:
- Online items
- URL web addresses
- Multiple authors
- Editors
- Corporate author(s) or organisation(s)
- Locating publisher details
- Multiple publisher details
- Editions and reprints
- Missing details
- Multiple sources with different authors
- Sources written by the same author in the same year
- Sources with the same author in different years
- Two authors with the same surname in the same year
- The work of one author referred to by another
- Anonymising sources for confidentiality
- Identifying the authors’ family name (surname)