Explaining something excessivley
Nonfiction generally doesn't have much figurative language.
It is false that parenthetical documentations appear at the bottom of the page in the research paper since footnotes are the ones that appear at the bottom of the page.
To add, parenthetical documentations are used to document any external sources used within a document. On the other hand, a footnote is an ancillary piece of information printed at the bottom of a page.
The correct way to punctuate this sentence would be C.