Citation formats

In the grand scheme of things, what matters in a source citation? In another forum recently, a researcher shared a bit of frustration. To paraphrase, with a bit of elaboration: ...

Years of teachinganced-level research methodology class has taught me at least one thing. Many researchers are great at following citation m an advanuals but are totally lost in the thickets without one. Can you, without cracking EE, tell us what the problems are in each (or any) of these?

16 January 2014 Citation templates are so intimidating. Not to mention: demanding. Include a, b, c, d, e. Use italics here and quotation marks there. But don’t put punctuation between ...