For students, the task of adding “end matter”—footnotes, bibliographies, appendices, and indexes—to writing projects can be daunting and time-consuming one. The task of doing proper citations seems fraught with seemingly arbitrary requirements for citation and bibliographic entries, with parentheses, colons, italics, and commas scattered throughout counterintuitively indented lines of text. Despite the anxiety-inducing nature of source-citation, students should realize that these oddly structured lines of reference material are in fact exquisitely sensible. Once they attain some familiarity with the formats, they can write their entries with speed and facility.