Writing is a tough business as is, but adding citations, references, and other formatting elements can make it dreadful, especially for students. This is because they are still learning the ropes and ...

Students and academics of the tech age no longer need to rely solely on library books and use typewritten call cards (remember those?) to find a book to cite for a research paper or college thesis.

Say you're writing a paper on Twitter during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. How do you cite all those tweets you'll be referencing? The Modern Language Association (MLA) has an answer to that: a ...