Doing citations is very similar to doing a jigsaw puzzle, only not nearly as much fun. Instead of a box full of pieces with a pretty picture on the front, you get a source (article, book, website, whatever) and a citation example. Then you have to dig up the pieces out of the source (for academic sources they're usually fairly well organized) and put them in the order that the example shows you.
Common Pieces:
Title: The title of the work, for articles you will often need the title of what they were published in as well.
Author: Who wrote it.
Date of publication/update: If you're dealing with a web-based source (like a website) this will be the last listed date that it was updated.
Date of access: For online sources this is simply the last time you looked at it. Print sources don't have this.
