Last Minute SOP Help Re: Citations

[jusrain]

Hi all! I'm wondering if anyone can comment on what might be appropriate for crediting theorists in my SOP (due today, ack!)

I originally had MLA style in-text citations in my SOP with a short works cited page, but all of the feedback I'm getting is that it's a bit disruptive. How do i combat this? Remove quotations entirely? Switch to Chicago Style footnotes even though that's not usually the citation method in papers? Not cite at all? I have 3-4 short phrases that I use and think are important to my SOP, but not necessarily fundamental if they are going to imply I do not understand the format of the SOP. I don't want to appear as if I'm not properly crediting people either, though. 

Example usage: Smith's research investigates XYZ, what he calls "blah blah blah," the implications of which are highly important to my research and life story yada yada (Smith 10). 
 

[havemybloodchild]

I'm sorry I didn't see this yesterday!

For my SoPs I simply named the author in the sentence along with whichever text I was mentioning.  Last year I did include a footnote in reference to a quote from an interview that I used.  

My advisor said more formal citations were not necessary.

Good luck!  I'm sure however you did it will be just fine.