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I want to provide you with a template for proper footnote form.

This is from Turabian, 6th edition (which is what I learned under). It is very similar to Chicago Manual of Style as well. Some of the more updated versions may look a little different, but if your footnotes do not look close to the ones Ive provided, then you may want to consult my little guide here. The proper form for footnoting a book is below: Kevin Giles, Patterns of Ministry among the First Christians (Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1989), 7-8. Notice that a footnote is single spaced, with the first line indented. You will need a space between footnotes. Whenever the author is cited again within the chapter or paper, you merely need to cite it thus: Giles, 32. Lets say that Gordon Fee has two works that have been cited in your paper, then you would provide a brief description of the title of the work you are citing, like: Fee, Philippians, 66-7. Now if you cite the same author and work in the footnote that immediately follows a full (or even partial) citation, that footnote would look like this: Ibid., 194. If the following citation is from the same page as the preceding footnote, then you would merely need to post: Ibid. Note the proper way to footnote journal articles. Author, title, Journal title, volume number, (date in parentheses): page number. Like this: G. McLean Harper, Jr. Village Administration in the Roman Province of Syria, Yale Classical Studies I (1928): 132-4. What about a website? Something like this:
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University, "The National Marriage Project," http://marriage.rutgers.edu/.

If an author is obvious, cite the author of the page or material on the page.

What about a reference work, like a Bible Dictionary? Cite it like this, especially if it is obvious that there is an author: James D. G. Dunn, Romans, Letter to the, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, eds. Gerald F. Hawthorne and Ralph P. Martin (Grand Rapids: Intervarsity Press, 1993), 838. If there are subsequent citations from the Dictionary of Paul, then, list the author, title in quotes, then Dictionary of Paul. A commentary in a commentary series? James D. G. Dunn, Romans 9-16, Word Biblical Commentary, eds. David A. Hubbard and Glenn W. Barker (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1988), 910-1. What about Kindle? Phyllis Trible, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978), Kindle Electronic Edition: Chapter 4, Location 288-90. Now, on to the bibliography. The information is very similar, but there are a few style matters. They need to be in alphabetical order, last name is listed first, second line is indented in the bibliography. Like this: Giles, Kevin. Patterns of Ministry among the First Christians. Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1989. Schlatter, Adolf. Romans: The Righteousness of God. Trans. Siegfried Schatzmann. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995. It is very similar for a journal article or dictionary entrance, except you list the pages of the entire article. For a website: Rutgers University. "The National Marriage Project." http://marriage.rutgers.edu/ (accessed August 1, 2007). Im not too much of a stickler, but if you are not even close, then it will cost you points. Plus, it will get you in the habit of proper citation when you encounter professors who do pay close attention and will punish you for your improper citation format.
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