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Because a proper citation to the Bible in an academic paper won’t be in the standard “author, title” form anyway.Instead, you’ll simply give the typical, “book, chapter, verse” citation (e.g., “John 3:16”), sometimes with the translation version included (e.g., “John 3:16 RSVCE”), written out in some citation formats (e.g., “John 3:16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition”).Quite simply, the Bible is unique among books, and academia has always acknowledged that. It doesn’t get cited as an “ordinary” book, like The Hobbit or On the Origin of Species.[NB: I’m not arguing that academia treats the Bible as more special than all other books. Other “holy books” also have their own unique citation formats.]So a citation to the Bible that lists any author will be incorrect, as a matter of proper citation formatting.Original Question:“Why can’t you put God as the author of the Bible when you cite it in a paper?”

Zero citations is pretty shitty - not going to lie. It means that no one thought it made sense to cite your work which tends to imply one of the following:Not enough people read your work to start withThe people who read the work are different than the people who care about itPeople read it and didn't care about itPeople read, and cared but decided not to cite in their workPeople read, cared and cited - but it took so long you no longer look at the citation count of that paperCitations are a complex beast because of the confluence of factors from above that it takes to get a citation.The most important thing you can do to help increase citations is:Make sure you write the paper in a way that teaches people something rather than pitching your discoveryPublish it in a relevant journal over a high impact journalAdvertise your own work to people you think will care by directly emailing them the paper or speaking with them at conferencesCite the people you want to cite you - like twitter, people want to cite (follow) people who cite themToo many people think that once the paper is published their work is done - this is wrong. That's when the work begins, to market your work and find its relevance with other research groups.Citations are as much about marketing the work as it is about the work itself… if not more!

If you can get across an empty street, I don't particularly care what color the light is or from which point of the block you step into the street.However, if Joe Pedestrian steps off the curb in front of a car or bus going 30 mph and makes that driver hit their brakes, Joe's getting stopped and will probably get a citation.War story alert: Around 1:30 am on a typical Friday or Saturday, I was sitting in my squad car watching a particular intersection for red light violations (a corner Stop'n'Go owner complained that many drivers were "shortcutting" across the parking lot to avoid the red light).As I sat there, I watched a young man from the local Major University step off the curb and into the street, ignoring the cross traffic's green light and his own "Don't Walk" pedestrian signal to walk into the roadway and stop cross traffic. When the vehicles stopped (one car screeched to a halt to avoid hitting the young man), the young man waved to his friends to cross the street. By this time, the friends had a "Walk" signal.As it happened, they walked directly towards me, so I got out with them to discuss the situation with the young man. He was apparently intoxicated and argued that "pedestrians always have the right-of-way." I explained his error, but he still wanted to argue. I decided to cite him for disobeying the "Don't Walk" signal. When I told the young man he was going to be cited, he became extremely belligerant and began hurling insults and epithets at me. His friends tried calming the young man down, even explaining that he had walked into the street in front of moving cars, but to no avail.I finished writing the jaywalking citation, turned to a fresh citation, and began writing a citation for "failure to yield to a motor vehicle in traffic. " When the young man realized what I was doing, he became virtually apoplectic, stammering and shouting that I "had no right" to issue him a second citation.Imagine his reaction when I turned over to a third citation and began filling that out for the offense of "intoxicated pedestrian in the roadway." He finally asked, "How many tickets are you going to write?" and I answered, "How long are you going to keep talking?" He finally quieted down and I finished the third citation in relative peace. It didn't help that his friends kept telling him that it was his own fault that he got stopped.He contested the citations, of course, but could only say it "wasn't fair" that he received three citations. The judge stated that he believed three citations was a good start, then fined the young man $250 and court costs, along with ordering him to attend alcohol counseling at the Major University.To make a short story long, it's all about sharing the streets and not causing disruptions. And for the record, I've written plenty of "failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk" citations to motorists, too.