Response to article 5/9/2011

I completely agree with Stedman that the way people cite sources is annoying. Often there are many unnecessary things included in the citation. I believe that the reason for this is because there are so many different formats of writing and citing. I am terrible at citing because it confuses me so much. I don't understand why there are so many different ways to cite based on what source you use. I try to use books whenever I write because I feel those are the easiest. I always save putting quotes into my papers till the last minute because I know I will spend at least an hour figuring out how to cite within the work and how to format the bibliography page. I really need a crash course on this topic.