In fairness to the Modern Language Association and other makers of popular academic style guides, citing sources -- if always tedious -- was once relatively straightforward: journal articles like this ...

As e-reading devices gain popularity, professors and students are struggling to adapt them to an academic fundamental: proper citations, which other scholars can use. The trouble is that in electronic ...

A new smartphone application takes most of the grunt work out of citing books in scholarly papers. Quick Cite, which costs 99 cents and is available for both iPhones and Android-based phones, uses the ...