mla format essay

Select Format from the menu bar and Paragraph. In the Indents and Spacing section, click Special and then click Hanging.

Notice that the cursor is set on the left margin. Click the Align Right icon from formatting toolbar to align the text on the right margin. Notice that the cursor is shown at the right margin in the header section below:

“Disrupting White Normativity in Langston Hughes’s ‘I, Too’ and Toni Morrison’s ‘Recitatif’”
Catherine Charlton, University of King’s College, Nova Scotia

Except for the running head (see below), leave margins of one inch at the top and bottom and on both sides of the text. If you plan to submit a printout on paper larger than 8½ by 11 inches, do not print the text in an area greater than 6½ by 9 inches.
The most common formatting is presented in the sections below:

Tip: Both Google Docs and Microsoft Word allow you to create heading levels which help you to keep your headings consistent.
The fastest and most accurate way to create MLA citations is by using Scribbr’s MLA Citation Generator.

The Modern Language Association generally promotes the use of references as described in the sections above, but footnotes and endnotes are also acceptable forms of references to use in your paper.
Here is an example of a running head that might be seen in the top right corner of a research paper:

Refences:

http://olympus.sandhills.edu/english/wordguide/mlaformat.html
http://style.mla.org/sample-papers/
http://style.mla.org/formatting-papers/
http://www.scribbr.com/mla/formatting/
http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/
http://www.oxbridgeessays.com/blog/how-to-structure-an-essay/