Boston University---Deadline to e-mail EE 2 "Citations"!

OK...the toughest assignment yet from my point of view. I know that just about everybody has read a book or an article on any subject that contained those little notes at the bottom of the pages. I'd say that I would take a look at those notes probably no more than 10 or 15% of the time. Granted, I'm not talking about a research book or a scientific article necessarily, but just in general. But I am talking about the ubiquitous "citation".
The last week or so, our virtual class has been learning how to create those little gems. It has been a humbling experience. When you read one, you never put a thought into it. You see what it says, it generally makes sense to you, it may or may not help you understand the material any better but they're there nonetheless and you move on. I would never have imagined that the rules, regulations and conventions for citations could possibly cause so much angst! I have to get a great mark on this assignment for no other reason than, perhaps, my own pride and self-esteem. How am I supposed to let italicizing a title get to me? Or the difference between a semi-colon, an apostrophe or a paginated or unpaginated source? And don't even THINK of putting a comma in front of a parenthetical statement for fear of isolating the preceding statement that it's supposed to support or define.
That day has come. Realize that I’m only talking about 10 citations in this assignment from simple places like a book, a newspaper article, a web site... What could be easier? It turns out that just about everything else is easier!
I’ve worked on this assignment early in the morning, late at night and all hours in between. Last night I was dreaming about citations. CITATIONS for cryin’ out loud! That was it…I decided to review the work one last time and send it in, for better or for worse. The minute I hit the send button, I felt relieved and then I got very nervous. Did I send the right revision? Did I remember to add that semi-colon? OMG (...see I know what that means!) did I remove the italics from the title of that book? Or did I ADD italics to the title of that book?
This is almost like going to school on a Monday morning and realizing, on the bus, that the essay is due for first period English and I never even started it… In those days, I could fire off a B+ or A- paper on the ride in… Those days, I think, are long gone!
We'll see what comes back next week...