Citation always felt like the most onerous part of writing papers in high school. I hated it. It seemed to take forever. Even with auto-formatters. The culprit

Citation always felt like the most onerous part of writing papers in high school. I hated it. It seemed to take forever. Even with auto-formatters. The culprit was MLA. Chicago-style (which I was allowed to use in most college classes) or just a very-casual "here's the link" are easy. Fucking MLA. No idea why it's what they teach in secondary school. It blows, well-developed alternatives exist, and it's not even anywhere near being some kind of universal, preferred citation style in all of academia.