A Field Guide to the Orthodox Church is written for the person standing in the back of an Orthodox church wondering what just happened. It's published first on the web, free to read, one entry to a page, so you can look something up in the parking lot. A printed edition will follow later.
How the citations work
Scripture references sit right in the text, in parentheses after the words they support. Psalms carry the numbering of English Bibles, with the Septuagint number added where it differs: "Psalm 51 (50 in the Septuagint)." The Septuagint is the Greek Old Testament the Orthodox Church prays from, and you'll meet both numberings in Orthodox books.
When a Church Father is quoted, his name stays in the sentence. Every other reference goes in a numbered note at the end of the entry, in short form, and the full reference for every work cited is in the Bibliography.
What is quoted, and from where
The texts of the services are quoted from Isabel Florence Hapgood's Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church (1906). Where a service text has been lightly modernized ("you" for "thee," "Holy Spirit" for "Holy Ghost"), the entry says so. The Fathers are quoted from the public-domain Schaff editions, the Ante-Nicene Fathers and the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Modern authors are summarized in this guide's own words, with credit, and quoted only in short phrases.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.