I Want to Know! Why use APA or MLA?
I hate parenthetical citations; they annoy me, and I find that the people who think they are good for the flow of reading do not have any idea how distracting they are. If there is a sentence that needs a citation putting it in parentheses makes the reader not move through the document in an efficient manner. If the citation is with a footnote or end note it does not distract the reader and if the reader chooses to, they can look at the note to see where this information came from. They can also see through annotations at the bottom of the page whether the source is reliable or just valuable to the reader, and not reliable . This is also the simplest way to cite information that still gives people all the information they need and ensures that the author is not stealing from the source material. There seems to be no reason for people to use anything other than the Chicago Manual of Style for their citations and I am begging people who choose to use the other formats to ex...