1. How to format your MLA Paper
Andrew College IWRC

2. HEADER

3. HEADER 2. Click on the Page Number 1. Double click on the header
and this should
appear

4. 2. Insert the page number
aligned right.
3. Type your last name
before the page number.
4. Close the header.

5. HEading

6. 1. Type the information for the heading aligned left, in order of importance of the information.

7. TITLE and Body

8. 1. Type your title centered
with the first word (and all
words more than three
letters) capitalized.
2. Indent each
paragraph by
tabbing once. Do
not add extra
spaces between
paragraphs.

9. Works Cited Page

10. 1. Type Works Cited, centered, on the top of the last page.
2. Alphabetize each entry.
3. Each entry on the Works Cited page MUST
correspond to an in-text citation.
4. Read through your paper and make sure you
have mentioned in the text (or in
parentheses at the end of sentence) each and
every entry.

11. Works Cited
For each entry, the first line is aligned left. The second and subsequent lines for each entry are tabbed in once.
See the Purdue OWL website for information on how to complete each entry for your Works Cited page:
Visit the IWRC for more assistance

12. Entry for an article on a web site with an author:
Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Website or Organization, Date of Publication, website link. Accessed 16 Oct
Olen, Helaine. “Why Don’t America’s Rich Give More to Charity?” The Atlantic, 16 December 2017, /12/why-dont-rich-give-more-charity/548537/. Accessed 18 Dec  

13. Entry for a web page with no author:
“Title of Article.” Name of Website or Organization, Date of Publication, website link. Accessed 16 Oct
"The Philanthropy 400 and the New Donor." The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 1 Nov , and-the-n/158?cid=FEATUREDNAV. Accessed 17 Dec

14. Entry for a book:
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Callahan, David. The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Knopf, 2017.