Citation Nightmares

Citations are important to almost anybody who writes for school or work, and it can become challenging to keep track of the specifics for each one.
In university, this was made worse by the fact that every professor seemed to have their own preference. So by the time I finished, I used
• AAA (American Anthropological Association)
• AIP (American Institute of Physics)
• CMOS (Chicago Manual of Style)
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
• Among 10 others created by individual professors and graduate students
It was almost impossible to keep it straight, but in the Fall of 2009, I found out about a book that would have made my life a little easier. Cite Right by Charles Lipson is great resource to have when using a style you are not familiar with. It gets the basic information to start using most of the citation styles. (154)