As described by the developer:

“The lack of an open, high-quality source of Bible cross references on the web has always bewildered me. This project is an attempt to remedy that deficiency.”

Visit Bible Cross References. Plug in a Bible verse, and click the “Find cross references” button. Easy enough.

You will be presented with a red box containing the text of the verse upon which you searched followed by a series of pink boxes, each with the text of a different cross reference.

The data for this cross reference lookup service is a combination of The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (TSK), a valuable Bible study tool, blended with data from the Topical Bible and Twitter Bible Search, both of which are additional online services provided by OpenBible.info.

While I’m not so sure that data from social media is the most reliable means for finding accurate cross references, the foundational data from the TSK is certainly useful. Besides the ingenuity of using social media data in cross reference lookups, the developer has added a voting system that allows users to enhance the relevance of results over time. I find this feature very intriguing. Even the TSK serves up some references that aren’t always useful. The yes / no voting buttons in the search results will allow the most relevant cross references to rise to the top while also pushing the least relevant to the bottom of the search results. This is a wonderful idea and could prove to be very worthwhile, especially if it is adopted by a community of serious-minded Bible students.

At present, there is no feature to suggest additional references for a particular verse, but this may be added in the future.

All in all, here are the things I like about the cross-referencing service at OpenBible.info:

• It is simple and easy to use.
• It is based on the TSK, which is a reliable cross-referencing tool.
• The full text of all cross references is displayed on-screen simultaneously, which eliminates unnecessary clicking.
• The yes / no voting buttons will allow the most relevant references to rise to the top over time.
• The results also print cleanly from your Web browser, displaying the full text of all the cross references, as seen in this example of John 15:7.

Give it a try, and let us know what you think. Are there other online cross-referencing tools that you recommend?

I’m not sure what causes it but here’s how to fix it:

1. Right-click on the cross-reference field, and select Edit Field.
   
2. The Preserve formatting during updates check box should be checked — check it if it’s not, then click OK.
   
3. Select the cross-reference field, and manually change the formatting to what you want it to be (remove the bold, make the font smaller or larger, or whatever formatting is ‘out of whack’). It should now hold for any future updates of that field. You can test it by updating the field.

(Hint: If you use fields a lot and need to know where they are in your document, turn on the option to always show them shaded in gray.)

See also:

• Bookmark cross-reference formatting (when preserve formatting doesn’t seem to work): http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/word-bookmark-cross-reference-formatting/
• Unbolded caption numbers: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/word-unbolded-caption-numbers/ ‎

[Links last checked February 2012]

Weiner

One tool you can use is the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, compiled by Dr. R. A. Torrey.  It was assembled over 100 years ago but remains the most comprehensive collection of Scriptural cross references available with over 500,000 entries.

Highly respected Bible expositor John MacArthur has stated that the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is:

“The one book, aside from the Bible itself, that I value most in my studies.”

There are many Web sites and Bible study programs that offer the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.  The following video tutorial introduces a couple of ways to access the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge for free.  One is an online tool at http://StudyLight.org/com/tsk.  The other is a free, downloadable Bible study software, e-Sword, which I highly recommend.

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To recap the instructions from the video:

StudyLight.org

1. Navigate your Web browser to http://StudyLight.org/com/tsk.
2. Select a book of the Bible.
3. Select a chapter.
4. The TSK references will appear after each verse.  Simply click these cross-reference links to view the related verses.

e-Sword

1. If you haven’t already done so, download and install the free e-Sword software here.
2. Then download and install the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge module for e-Sword.
3. Launch the e-Sword application.
4. Navigate to the passage you wish to study.  (Use the Scripture Reference Lookup panel on the left side of the application, or press the F2 key.)
5. Select the TSK tab in the Commentary panel.
6. Simply hover your mouse over each of the cross-references to view the verse(s) in a tooltip.  (You can click on the links to be taken to that passage in the Bible panel, but it isn’t required.)

Do you use cross-references in your Bible study routine?  Which tools do you recommend?

When all Track Changes have not been accepted, you may not be able to insert a cross-reference to a table or figure caption correctly. Either you see multiple instances of the caption listed in the Cross Reference dialog box, OR you don’t see the caption at all, OR you see an incorrect table/figure number for the caption (e.g. you see Table 5.1 instead of Table 1.1).

This is a known issue with Word since at least Word 2000 (see the list of resources at the end of this post).

The issue

You’d think that accepting all changes would be sufficient. And it is. But accepting all changes is not appropriate where you have a document that MUST keep Track Changes on, such as one that has to go through a regulatory compliance process through all its revisions. I have been working on these types of documents. In Word 2003, it was never really an issue – double-upped cross-references were an annoyance more than anything, and we never noticed any that were missing. But as soon as my client started using Word 2007, we came across serious issues with existing table and figure captions not being listed in the Cross Reference dialog.

A little testing showed that it was related to Track Changes being on and the acceptance of all changes in the document. Armed with that knowledge, I headed off to trusty Google to try to find a solution — a solution that allowed cross-reference and caption fields (and lists of tables and figures) to be updated without affecting other parts of the document.

Solution

Macropod (clever name!), a Microsoft Word MVP, had posted a macro that solved the problem (http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-31716892.php). It worked great, but it dropped me into the footer and into Draft view at the end of the document when it was finished. So I posted my request to the Microsoft Word Programming Discussion Group, and the ever-helpful Macropod tweaked his/her original macro to get me what I wanted, which was to return to where I was when I ran the the macro.

Here’s Macropod’s revised macro:

Sub AcceptTrackedFields()
Dim oRng As Range ' All Range objects - includes ranges in the body, Headers , Footers & Shapes
Dim Fld As Field ' Field Object
Dim oView As Variant ' The original document view
Dim SelRng As Range ' The original selection
' Turn Off Screen Updating
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument
oView = ActiveWindow.View.Type
Set SelRng = Selection.Range
' Loop through all range objects and accept tracked changes on fields
For Each oRng In .StoryRanges
Do
For Each Fld In oRng.Fields
Fld.Select
Selection.Range.Revisions.AcceptAll
Next
Set oRng = oRng.NextStoryRange
Loop Until oRng Is Nothing
Next
End With
With ActiveWindow
If .View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneNone Then
.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView
Else
.View.Type = wdPrintView
End If
.View.SeekView = wdSeekMainDocument
.View.Type = oView
SelRng.Select
End With
' Restore Screen Updating
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Thanks heaps, Macropod! The generosity of the Microsoft MVPs and community is humbling.

See also:

• How and where to store this macro so that you can use it with all your Word documents: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/word-separate-out-macros-and-attach-them-to-all-documents/

Some websites that discuss this issue

• http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Word/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement/2008-12/msg02350.html (or http://bit.ly/zY0fh)
• http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Word/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement/2008-12/msg02346.html (or http://bit.ly/3RsWxT)
• http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html (question and answer near the bottom of this page)
• http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3715892.php (macro solution)
• http://robsnotebook.com/ms-word-track-changes-printing-crossrefs
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/252619 (shows that it was an issue back in Word 2000!!)
• http://www.mcse.ms/archive/index.php/t-2809819.html (option to lock fields??)
• More on locking the fields: http://wordribbon.tips.net/Pages/T009921_Stopping_Automatic_Changes_from_Being_Tracked.html

See also:

• List of tables/figures won’t update: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/word-sometimes-a-list-of-tablesfigures-just-wont-update/

[Links last checked October 2009]

In these books (Moses’ writings), the parallels between what happened to Moses and the Israelites and Satan’s offerings and Jesus’ responses (quoting Moses) are fascinating.

Let me encourage you – pay attention to those cross-references. Yes, if you read them all, your amount of time spent reading will increase incredibly. BUT – you will be blessed! The way God’s Word flows as one grand Story is remarkable.  

Appreciate your prayers as I share a message this weekend!

Yours in Christ,

Marty

So what’s my peeve this time? The Word 2003 Cross-reference dialog box (and, to an extent, the Word 2007 Cross-reference dialog box, though some things have been fixed).

What’s so annoying about it? Well, it just DOESN’T work well with long documents where you have to insert many cross-references. I’ve been working on hundreds of these types of documents since last September and there are some simple things that could improve the experience for those of us who have to use this function many times a day.

Here’s the Word 2003 dialog box, showing that there are many many headings in this document — the vertical scroll bar on the right indicates that Section 5.6 in this example is only about a quarter of the way into this document.

Word 2003 Cross reference dialog box

So how is this Word 2003 dialog box broken?

• You cannot resize the dialog box any which way, which means that you have to continually scroll the list nine items at a time (Home and End work within it as do the page up/down keys, so that helps a little). This is sort of fixed in Word 2007 — the dialog is resizable for both height and width, but the resizing does not hold if you close the dialog box. As soon as you re-open it, it goes back to the default size.
  
• The heading levels cannot be collapsed — they always open fully expanded, which makes it painful to get to Section 12 of 24 sections, for example. Again, you have to scroll to get there. This is the same in Word 2007. Surely it would be a simple thing to add expand/collapse icons for the Headings list??
• If you select an item, then click Insert and leave the dialog open, then select another item and click Insert again, the next time you try to do this, you lose the scroll bar and end up at the top of the list. Now you either have to close the dialog and start again, or use the page up/down etc. keys to navigate to the next cross-reference (the scroll bar is inactive) OR — here’s a tip — click in the scroll bar BEFORE you select the second and subsequent items, then you won’t lose it. It’s an extra click but quicker than having to scroll using the keyboard or closing and re-opening the dialog box. This appears to be fixed in Word 2007, based on the little testing I did.
• The Insert reference to option does not hold between various Reference types. For example, if I choose Only label and number for a Figure, then I insert some figure cross-references, everything is fine. But if I then insert switch reference type to a Table (perhaps also selecting Only label and number) then when I go back to inserting a Figure cross-reference, the default (Entire Caption) is displayed and I have to re-select Only label and number, even if I’m in the same session (i.e. I haven’t closed the dialog and I haven’t closed the Word document). What I would like is for the selection I made the last time I inserted a Figure in this session to hold for the next time I insert a Figure. This would save me hundreds of mouse clicks per document! This is not fixed in Word 2007, which exhibits the same behavior as Word 2003.

These are all little things that perhaps wouldn’t be noticed if you were only using this dialog occasionally. But I’ve had to open it and insert thousands of cross-references over the past six months or so, and it’s limitations are apparent. And annoying.

See also:

• 10 suggestions to fix the Cross Reference window: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/message-to-microsoft-fix-words-cross-reference-dialog-box/#comment-9175

The Inductive Green Dotted Line

One of the things that helps in inductive is to outline the commands with green dotted lines. The first thing we see in chapter three is a command: Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed, to malign no one, to be uncontentious, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.

Put a green dotted line around all of that, reminding yourself that this is a command.  There are a few questions to answer about this command. First, who is commanded to remind them? Furthermore, who is the “them” in verse one?

In writing this letter to Titus, Paul was telling Titus to do some things in Crete – remember he was to set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city? In Chapter 3 verse one we see another thing that Paul tells Titus to do – to remind them to be subject to rulers. Paul used an “implied” you when talking to Titus – he didn’t write “Titus, you be sure to remind them to be subject to rulers” but he implied that it was Titus’ job to do that.

Now the question of the “them” – who is to be subject to rulers?  We have to remember that Paul didn’t put the chapter divisions in his letter. Those divisions were put in much later in an attempt to help the reader more accurately understand the letter. However, sometimes chapter divisions confuse the reader because we assume that the writer’s thought has ended and he’s moved on. In this letter, Paul’s thoughts in Chapter Three are a continuation of what he had been saying in Chapter Two.

Look at chapter two again. Paul had told Titus to address several groups of people: Older men, older women, young men, and bond-slaves. Then he moves on in Chapter Three to talk to all the groups together – Remind them all to be subject to rulers.

Mark the commands throughout all of Chapter Three, making sure to use context to decide the subject of the command.

Cross-References in your Bible

One thing we haven’t talked about yet is using the cross-references that are in your copy of the Bible. Most Bibles come with some cross-references already done for you that are listed in a center column, in the margins, or below the text. The Bible publishers have done what we did with the Strong’s to find what the Bible says about a subject. There are a lot of topics that can be further studied with cross-references in Chapter Three, and a good place to start is with those in your Bible. Just remember that there are more – the Bible publishers don’t have room to make note of all the possible references, so they chose a few. Start with those and then move on to what you can find in your Strong’s

Finishing Up

I hope that you’ve had fun studying Titus. The method that you learned can be applied to any book of the Bible, and should be applied to any book of the Bible! I want to encourage you to keep studying – the thing I’ve found is that studying the Bible is very habit forming – once you start studying the Word, you quickly develop a habit of studying, and when that happens, it’s easier to study than to stop studying! That’s a good place to be in!

Janine Bear is a wife, a mother of four teenagers, and a Pastor in Rogers, MN. Her passion is teaching people to study the Word, and does that whenever she gets a chance.  She’s available for conferences, retreats, seminars and Bible studies.

First, I turned on the ‘show bookmarks’ option so I could see them all:

• Word 2003: Tools > Options > View tab, Show group, Bookmarks check box.
• Word 2007: Office button ,  click Word Options then Advanced on the left. Scroll down to the Show document content section, and select the Show bookmarks check box.

Bookmarks check box in Word 2003

Show Bookmarks check box in Word 2007

Next, I hunted down the bookmark for the Appendix that had its cross-reference going haywire.

This is what I expected to see — notice how the bookmarked text is surrounded by gray square brackets; this is how it should be:

How a Bookmark should look

However, that’s not what I saw. Instead I saw this:

Bookmark spanning a page break

Notice how the start of the bookmarked text (1) is just before the forced page break, and the end (2) is where it should be.

No wonder the page break was being dumped into the body of the document whenever a cross-reference for this appendix was inserted! It was being picked up with the text as Word (logically) understood it to be part of the text.

The solution was to select the correct text (i.e. WITHOUT the page break) and re-assign the AppendixD bookmark to it. Once I’d updated the document fields (Ctrl+A, then F9), everything worked fine!

“I came across this about a month ago and was amazed by it: Chris Harrison, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, along with Christoph Römhild, a Lutheran pastor, developed a gorgeous visualization of all of the over-63,000 cross-references in the Bible. In this graph, books and chapters of the Bible line the bottom bar, while arcs connect different chapters to each other across the main area of the image. You’ve got to see it for yourself — it is elegant and simply amazing. Check it out: Visualizing the Bible.”

You can use the link in the quotation to go directly to the source, but here’s a smaller version of what you’ll see.

When we need to cross-reference the appendix in the main text, we select the name from the list of bookmarks and insert it. Most times the cross-reference goes in as it should—formatted the same as the surrounding text.

But on the odd occasion and for no apparent reason, the cross-reference decides to display the formatting of the original appendix heading. I’ve put two of these suckers into the same sentence—one will go in OK and take the formatting of the surrounding sentence; the other displays in the formatting of the appendix heading (all caps and 14 pt bold!).

I’ve checked and double-checked the Edit Field and Toggle Field Code options to see if there’s anything different between the two. Nope. They are exactly the same. If I manually format the incorrect one, when I update the fields using F9, it goes back to 14 pt bold all caps. Grrrrr…

So today I’d had enough! I found out how to fix it, and I’m hoping this fix will hold for all future field code updates (it’s held the few times I’ve updated the doc today, so here’s hoping…)

Here’s what you do in Word 2003 (Word 2007 should be similar once you get to the Field window):

1. Right-click on the cross-reference text.
2. Select Edit Field.
3. On the Field window, click the Field Codes button (lower left).
4. Add a space after the \h part, then type \* charformat
5. Make sure that the Preserve formatting during updates check box is clear.
6. Click OK.

You could add this \* charformat part into the toggled field code instead, but there’s more chance of making a mistake.

Fixing formatting in a cross-reference

(I found the answer here: http://tinyurl.com/67oabt [Lockergnome site])

See also:

• Unbolded caption numbers: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/word-unbolded-caption-numbers/ ‎
• Remove formatting from cross-references: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/word-remove-formatting-from-cross-references/

[Links last checked February 2012]

Reference Rainbow (from CT)

A visual representation of the Bible's cross reference of itself.

For further reading

Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, Beale & Carson

According to Plan, Goldsworthy

In my opinion, indexing is pointless. Searching is much more important than indexing.

I think you should provide the simplest automatic indexing, based on topic headings, and rely on your users to use full-text search to actually find anything.

Full-text search is easy and it works perfectly. Indexing, on the other hand, depends on the skill and commitment of the indexer. For myself, I feel that my life is too short to spend much of it on indexing.

My response

Yes, full text search (FTS) has its place (and Google et al have a lot to answer for in this regard).

BUT FTS brings with it a lot of garbage as it find any matching words without any reference to their context. You can narrow the results list by judicious use of Boolean operands and syntax such as quote marks, parentheses and the like—but most users don’t know about them or how to use them. However, this still doesn’t put the words into context. In many ways FTS is like a concordance… ‘let’s list every word we find in the document no matter how important it is’. Concordances treat every word equally.

Indexes on the other hand—at least, well-constructed indexes—serve a different purpose in focusing the user’s attention on the words most likely to have relevance.

Well-constructed indexes are done by humans who can detect nuances and meaning of words—in the context of their usage. Indexes created by software (of any kind) just don’t have this sophistication at the moment. A good indexer can create “see” references from unused terms to used terms, and “see also” references to similar terms. Complex indexes also refer users to broader and narrower terms.

Others have mentioned synonyms and they are one of the prime reasons why human indexers are much better at this than software. A FTS can’t distinguish between words such as “editing”, “amending”, “changing”, altering”, “modifying” (and their variations)—yet they could all be used in the document. A human indexer can set one term as the preferred term and refer all other uses to that term, thus offering the user the FULL range of topics that cover anything to do with changing something.

Others have also mentioned that print output (NOT screen versions of print, like PDF) doesn’t have FTS, and a good TOC and Index is the way users access the information. I believe there is a place for both… and I would be very sad to see the day when indexes are relegated to the trash.

Bible Cross-References: The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters in the Bible. Books alternate in color between white and light gray. The length of each bar denotes the number of verses in the chapter. Each of the 63,779 cross references found in the Bible is depicted by a single arc - the color corresponds to the distance between the two chapters, creating a rainbow-like effect.

This is a pretty cool visualization of bible cross-references that was developed by Chris Harrison to show bible cross references throughout the length of the bible. I can’t help but think of how interesting this could be for genome visualization: the cross references could be based on genes that are transcription factors for other genes. (activate or deactivate those genes). Chris has lots of other fascinating visualization projects to look at, and is very stimulating to browse it.

• See: Refers you from an unused term to a used term. For example, ‘ornithology, see birds’ means that anything about birds in this document is listed under birds in the index, not under the more scientific term of ornithology. In the index, only birds has a page number reference.
• See also: Refers you to other used terms related to this one. These terms may be ‘siblings’ or ‘children’ of the parent term. For example, you may see ‘birds, see also reptiles’. Both terms are at an equal level, so are ‘siblings. However, ‘birds, see also eagles, flamingos, parakeets’ refer to terms that are narrower than the parent term birds, so are ‘child’ terms. All terms are listed in the index with their respective page number references.

[This article was first published in the September 2005 CyberText Newsletter.]

You can automate this process—and produce automated Tables of Figures as well, just like an automated Table of Contents.

These instructions apply to any captioned tables, figures and diagrams. I will use ‘figure’ to refer to each of them.

Labeling a figure in Word

1. Position your cursor beneath the figure.
2. Open the Caption window:
   * Word 2003: Select Insert > Reference > Caption from the menu.
   * Word 2007: Go to the References tab > Captions command group, then click Insert Caption.
3. Select Figure from the Label drop-down list.
   

   Caption – default settings for Figure

4. Optional: If you use headings with Outline Numbering, you may want to add a Chapter number. To do so, click Numbering and select the Include chapter numbercheck box. You can also specify the number format, style, and separator.
   

   Caption with chapter numbering included

   

   Caption settings for chapter numbering

5. Add any extra caption information after the caption number (e.g. Figure 3: xxxx).
   

   Caption complete

6. Click OK.

The caption is added, using the Caption style (you can modify this default style on the Styles and Formatting task pane in Word 2003, or the Styles floating window in Word 2007). The number is automatically sequenced even if you add another figure between two existing figures with captions inserted like this.

NOTE: If the number doesn’t update automatically, or if you’ve copied an earlier caption and pasted it in another place then modified the caption’s text, update the field by selecting it and pressing F9. Update ALL the auto captions [and all other fields such as the TOC, List of Figures etc.] by pressing Ctrl+A, then F9.

Referring to a figure in the body text

The caption must exist (see above)—you can’t reference something that isn’t there.

1. In the body text, place the cursor when you want the cross-reference text to be inserted.
2. To insert a cross reference:
   * Word 2003: Select Insert > Reference > Cross-Reference from the menu.
   * Word 2007/2010: Go to the References tab > Captions command group, then click Cross-reference.
3. Select Figure from the Reference Type drop-down list. All figures that have been inserted as a caption are listed in the bottom half.
   

   Cross-reference settings

4. Click once on the figure that you want to refer to.
5. In the Insert reference to drop-down list, select how you want the information displayed (e.g. select Only label and number to just display “Figure x” and not the entire caption; select Entire caption to display “Figure x: yyyyyy”).
6. Click Insert, then click Close. The reference is added to the document—if you click in it, you should notice the gray shading indicating that it’s a field.
   

   The cross-reference is inserted as a field

Creating the Table of Figures

1. Position the cursor where you want the Table of Figures to be placed (it usually goes immediately after the Table of Contents).
2. Insert the Table of Figures:
   * Word 2003: Select Insert > Reference > Index and Tables from the menu.
   * Word 2007/2010: Go to the References tab > Captions command group, then click Insert Table of Figures.
3. Click on the Table of Figures tab, if it’s not already selected.
4. From the Caption Label drop-down list, select the type of table you want to create—Figure in this example.
   

   Table of Figures settings

5. Make any other changes as required.
6. Click OK.
7. Add a title (e.g. List of Figures) above the list just like you do for Contents.
   

   A table of figures

Update February 2012: Really long captions: Several people have asked questions in the comments about dealing with really long captions, and there have been some excellent suggestions. Take a look at the comments from March 29, 2010, June/July 2011, and especially August 8, 2011 — one of these may solve your problem.

See also:

• Table and figure numbering: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/table-and-figure-numbering/

[This article was first published in the March 2003 CyberText Newsletter; steps last checked and updated for Word 2007, 21 August 2008; screen shots added February 2009]

Document References

Document references are maintained rigorously by the organization and include all documents maintained in the organization’s archive.  The organization’s archive comprises the full body of published works (approved reports, correspondence, invoices, etc) and sent officially by the organization and associated organizations, reference documents, and other protected works (art, video, film, and related media).  Documented references are presented in the text using the following conventions associated with a ‘Reference Section’ and associated ‘Reference(s).’

Reference Section:  At the end of each document that includes document references a reference section is included before any appendixes, attachments, etc.  Full references are presented for each referenced document included in the text in an alpha-numeric manner.  The format of the reference section is presented as a left justified, hanging indented list.   The first time an individual’s/organization’s name is presented it is spelled out and its associated acronym or abbreviation is presented in parenthesis – additional references by the same individual/organization will only use the abbreviation or acronym. 

Correspondence References: correspondence references are presented in the following format in the reference section:

ABC Corporation (ABC), 2005; correspondence from Mr. John A. Doe, PhD – President, to Mr. Christopher C. Boe, PG; Principal Hydrogeologist/Engineer; BOE PC –  RE: Review of Phase I ESA for ABC Corporation’s East Lincoln Property, dated October 22, 2005.

ABC, 2005b; correspondence from Mr. John A. Doe, PhD – President, to Mr. Christopher C. Boe, PG; Principal Hydrogeologist/Engineer; BOE PC – RE: Authorization to Proceed on Phase II Investigation – ABC Corporation’s East Lincoln Property, dated October 29, 2005.

…

BO^e, 2005c; Invoice RE: of Phase I ESA for ABC Corporation’s East Lincoln Property, dated October 25, 2005.

Document References:  document references (books primarily) are presented in the following format in the reference section:

Sinkankas, John; 1964; Minerology; Van Nodstrand Reinhold Company, New York, Copyright 1964, Library of Congress Catalog Number 75-20850, ISBN 0-442-2764-9.

Journal Article References:  articles from professional journals are presented in the following format in the reference section:

Kulsrud, Russel M., 1960; “Plasma Physics.” American Scientist, December, 1960.

Associated References:  associated references to documents are presented in the text of the document.   The associated references are placed in the text of the document generally at the end of the first related sentence or pertinent text, if applicable.  The reference will only include the assoicated abbreviation, acronym, or name of the reference and the associated date code presented in parenthesis, bookmarked, and hyperlinked (see above).  Examples of associated references for the example Reference sections are presented below.

… The organization incorporated additional comments by Mr. Doe as presented (ABC, 2005).  The organization will proceed with the Phase II ESA per ABC’s authorization (ABC, 2005b) after payment in full of the invoice presented (BO^e, 2005c). …

… Halite is a natural occurring mineral comprised of sodium chloride (NaCl) commonly know as ‘salt’ (Sinkankas, 1964).  …

Note:  By convention client’s correspondence are referenced using cumulative dates for the year for all client projects. The organization’s correspondence are referenced using cumulative dates only for the referenced project only.  Thus, Client correspondence references may be copy and pasted from the Archive Reference List without or with few modifications; however, the organization’s correspondence will require re-dating.

See also:  the section entitled Archive Procedure.

‘See also:’ References

See also: references are provided in a document to assist the reader in referencing associated sections that provide greater detail regarding a specifically pertinent related topic.  The digital copy of the document includes a hyperlink that includes a book-marked section and an associated hyperlink to the section after the reference.   When the reviewer clicks on the See also: reference in a digitally formatted document, the reviewer is repositioned to the referenced section in the document automatically.

To include a See also: reference in a document, insert “See also: the section entitled, [Section Name].”  at the end of the section you are presenting it.  The See also reference is positioned left justified with no indent.  The “See also:” text is presented in bold.  The referenced section name is presented in title case.

Book-mark:  Each referenced section must be bookmarked.  To bookmark a section select the section text, copy the name of the section, and click on the bookmark option from the Insert menu while the text is still highlighted.  Paste the section name in the bookmark name pane and click on the add button or press enter.

Hyperlink:  Each referenced section presented in the see also reference are hyperlinked to the assocaited bookmark.  To hyperlink a section, select and copy the section name in the see also reference and select the hyperlink option from the insert menu.  You can also select a hyperlink using the insert hyperlink button on the standard toolbar if it is shown.  When the reference is selected a hyperlink may be inserted alternatively by pressing the ‘ctrl’ and ‘K’ keys on your keyboard.  Click on the screen tip button to open the set hyperlink screentip window.  Paste the section name or type alternative text (e.g.: a synonym) in the screentip text pane and click the okay button.  Paste the section name in the text to display pane, if necessary.  Select the section name from the options in the select a place in this document: and click the okay button.  After the bookmarked section is hyperlinked to the See also: reference the text color will automatically be blue and underlined.  For example, a see also reference hyperlinked to the cross-reference and word processing sections in this document will look like this.

See also: the sections entitled, Cross-References, & Word Processing.

Note:  You may need to change the case of some section titles (e.g.: first level headings) from all capts to title case.

Sources

Sources are referenced both within the body text and in graphics when quotations, references to works by others, or materials prepared by others are used.   Sources are generally presented at the end of the first sentence in which a source is referenced when used in body text.  The source is presented in parentheses using the name and date.  An example of a source reference associated with Invoice RE: of Phase I ESA for ABC Corporation’s East Lincoln Property, dated October 25, 2005 would be (BO^e, 2005c).  Each source reference is included in the associated reference section.  Sources presented in graphics are presented in parenthesis with the introduction ‘Source:’ as follows: (Source: ABC, 2009c).

Los Angeles Times Article by David Kries

Seargent David Kries, San Diego Police

David Kries, University of Pittsburgh Football

David Kries, Gonzaga Prep Baseball

David Kries, Auto Racing

You’ll notice that the whole Book of Mormon is written in King James Bible style. Don’t be intimidated. Just remember that “thee” and “thou” means “you”, “thine” means “your”, “mine” means “my”. “Ye” usually means “you all”.

The book is divided, like the King James Bible, into books, chapters, and verses. Cross references to other related verses are indicated with a superscript letter to the right of a word or phrase. If you have an actual printed book, look at the bottom of the page for the corresponding footnote or reference to another scripture. Online, you can just click on the underlined words.

References include Old and New Testament Bible books that will already be familiar. Other references are for books in the Book of Mormon and other scriptures particular to the LDS faith. “TG” means “Topical Guide“, which is an LDS concordance of themes found in all presently revealed scripture, both ancient and latter-day.

There are also a lot of “and it came to pass” phrases. This is actually normal for the time period and the origins of the writing systems and languages being represented. Archaeologically speaking, carved monuments in several Latin American countries (which we presume were built by people related to or descended from people of the Book of Mormon) use this phrase quite frequently. It was simply a way of saying “and then what happened was…”.

Most of the Book of Mormon has a time reference printed at the bottom right or bottom left hand corner of the page. The online version has the date ranges in the chapter heading. The first page of First Nephi, Chapter 1 (abbreviated as 1 Nephi 1), shows that the point in time where Nephi begins recording his family’s history is 600 BC. This is inferred from his later prophetic statements that Christ would come 600 years after Nephi’s family left Jerusalem (see

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Faut dire que Lessard est un pro de l’écriture. Très méticuleux. C’est pas la blogorrhée de certains.