Family Tree has its own built-in system of source citations, At its simplest, you click a blue source hint and then you click the people listed in the source to attach to the matching person in the Tree.
To find additional sources for a person, you can also click FamilySearch under Search Records. Any records you find can be easily attached to the person and members of their household, All of the rules for formatting sources are taken care of automatically.
What about official documents on other websites?
Yes, Family Tree allows you to create sources yourself, but it is a slow manual process. The good news is that there is a better way, A web search for recordseek.com will find a page with a green button that you can drag to the Bookmarks bar of your browser. (If the Bookmarks bar is hidden, press Shift+Ctlr+B) Now when you want to create a source from any website, copy the person's Family Tree ID to the clipboard, then highlight the text that you want included in your source. Next click the Recordseek bookmark, select FamilySearch, click Next, paste the ID in the (long) bottom box, click Next once or twice, and the source has been added to the individual and to the Source Box. With a little practice, you can probably create a source in less than a minute.
If you would like to see a live tutorial see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQ7CqFh6A4
(Family Tree has changed slightly since the tutorial was made, and I do not bother to reformat the text, but it is an excellent tutorial.)
Copy and Paste
If you are using Windows 10 without using the Clipboard History tool, you might find this really helpful https://www.howtogeek.com/671222/how-to-enable-and-use-clipboard-history-on-windows-10/ It allows you to keep multiple items (instead of just one) on your Windows clipboard. Try Win+V
Indexing
Where do the FamilySearch source hints come from? They come from indexed records.
An interesting interview on Indexing can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdqvYCPP7ho
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