#anyway yes footnote supremacy 4lyfe 😂

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Chicago author-date anon here: I'm pretty sure that prof was retaliating against the change in the system. We used to use MLA (so in-text referencing and we were not allowed to use ANY footnotes) and then a different prof launched a multi year campaign to change it to Chicago for students because that's what pretty much every journal uses anyway. The moment the change came through, the other professor was like "Chicago? FINE but they have to use author-date" without adjusting the word counts for the essays (which in undergrad were 1k to teach us how to write concise so like...). FYI this is in the English department, the history department uses Turabian in undergrad and Chicago in grad school (also very odd).

What??? Lmao. Tbh, I have never heard of MLA in-text, only MLA footnote. Then again, clearly your university also has Very Strong Opinions about obscure reference systems, since this is definitely something for academics to complain about. Ahem.