MLA PAPER FORMAT
This is what the first page of a short MLA-style paper looks like. Unless your teacher tells
you otherwise, the font should be 12-point Times New Roman (though 12-point Arial and
Calibri are often fine). Double space the entire paper, including each line of the header and all
indented quotations. Don’t add an extra space before or after any paragraph. This page is based
on the MLA Handbook, 7th ed. 2009; the 2016 8th edition does not address format issues and so
offers no changes. Entries on the “Works Cited” page, however, represent 8th edition guidelines.
Wilcox 1
Cary Wilcox
Dr. F. McCourt
English 1011
10 September 2016
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1” from page top. 1”
margin on each side
of the page,
including bottom.
Indent each paragraph ½”
(five spaces or one tab
space).
Indent quotations of
more than four lines
1” (ten spaces or two
tab spaces) from the
left margin. Do not
change the right
margin and do not
use quotation marks.
½” from page top.
Click on the “Insert”
tab in Word and
then on “Page
Numbering.”
Revised 8/31/16
Pocatello I.S.U. Writing Center Idaho Falls
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208-282-3662 www.isu.edu/success/writing 208-282-7925
This is what the “Works Cited” page of an MLA-style paper looks like. Continue double
spacing all entries without adding any extra spaces. Continue to number each page as if
it were part of your paper. Alphabetize each entry by the last name of the first author.
Consult our “MLA Style” handout for help in formatting specific entries.
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Works Cited
Austen, Jane. Catharine and Other Writings. Edited by Margaret Anne Doody and
Douglas Murray, Oxford UP, 1993.
Bour, Isabelle. “Mary Brunton’s Novels, or, the Twilight of Sensibility.” Scottish
Literary Journal, vol. 24, no.2, Nov.1997, pp. 24-35.
Gay, Penny. “A Hypothetical Map of Highbury.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 36,
no. 1, Winter 2015, www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol36no1/gay.html.
Lee, Wendy Anne. “Resituating ‘Regulated Hatred’: D.W. Harding’s Jane
Austen.” ELH, vol. 77, no.4, 2010, pp. 996-1014. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40963117.pdf?_=1471459730771.
Lew, Joseph. “That Abominable Traffic”: Mansfield Park and the Dynamics of
Slavery.” History, Gender, and Eighteenth-Century , edited by
Beth Fowkes Tobin.: The University of Georgia Press, 1994. 271-300.
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Vintage Books, 1999.
Start the first line of
each entry at the
left margin (1” from
the paper’s edge).
Indent every
following line of that
entry ½ inch (five
spaces or one tab
space).
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