http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla
www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/.../citation.htm
Why no dear fellow, neither your graduate degrees nor mine are a "waste of time." However, if you are to eventually prepare a dissertation, you may find the aforementioned of some value. In fact, even a cursory glance at the information may well, in the long run, save you a great deal of time and trouble.
Praemonitus. Praemunitus.
Somehow I made it through my thesis without your help. The composition is quite different from the colloquial manner of social media. But again, if lecturing people on formatting errors (as opposed to actually reading threads and contributing intelligently -or not) is the best that you can manage, then I salute your effort sir. It takes a village.
I’ll keep that link handy though. Just in case LIU ever offers my field of study and I opt to double down. Or perhaps someday I’ll change my mind and decide to become a librarian or pharmacist. Go Blackbirds.