This column is susceptible to nothing if not to accusations of extreme nerdiness, and the site I want to point you in the direction of today is no different. Fortunately for you, there’s a significant population of Charlottesville who will actually find this site quite useful. There’s a fair number of professors, researchers, students and hangers-on milling about from the Rotunda to Belmont who have known, are currently experiencing, or are soon to experience, the pain of a bibliography—the pain of tracking down the year and city of publication, long after you have returned the book to the UVA stacks, the pain of asking yourself, “Does the essay name come before the book title or after?”
Well, you’re welcome, because I recently found that pain can be significantly diminished in the future with a little help from BibMe, a website that creates a bibliography for you. It has the capacity to write bibliographies for books, newspapers, magazines, websites, journals, or films in MLA, APA, Chicago or Turabian formats. Just type in the title, author, or ISBN number and add that entry to your online bibliography. Then, when you’ve gotten all your sources together, just print the damn thing out and be done with it. Maybe with a little help from this site, you’ll get your next paper in an hour before the final, absolute, die-hard deadline. Instead of five minutes before, like last time.