MLA REPORT FORMAT - SENIOR LEVEL

WORKS CITED PAGE FORMAT & HEADERS

bibme.org
 Copy the “URL” site address you wish to cite on your “Works Cited” page (last page of report.)
 Open Internet and navigate to bibme.org
 Paste your URL address into the “Website URL: box.” Be sure not to duplicate the http:// portion
of the address.
 Click on “Load Info” and your URL address will be processed and your citation will appear in the
upper right hand corner of the page.
 Copy and paste the citation onto the citation page of your report.

Hanging Indent Format

 Highlight citation to be formatted.

 Right click on highlighted section and select “Paragraph”.
 Change numbers in “Indentation” and “Spacing” to 0”.
 Click on the down arrow in “Special” and select “Hanging”.
 If necessary, change the indent to .5”
 Under “Line Spacing” select “Double spacing”. Click “OK”

To Double Space Between All Citations At Once:

 Highlight the citations to be double spaced.

 Right click on the selected material and select “Paragraph” and then “Line Spacing”
 Select double spacing and “OK.”

Alphabetize Citation

 Your citation page must be alphabetized.

 Select the text to be sorted.
 Click on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Sort (A/Z↓).
 In the Sort Text dialog box, under Sort by, click Paragraphs and Text, and then click either
Ascending or Descending. Sort

Header:
 Click the “Insert” tab, then “Header”. Select the “Blank” header.
 Select the “Home” tab and click the “Align Text Right” button. Select the “Insert” tab and click
on “Number”
 Select “Top of Page” and then select “Plain Number 3”. Next, type your last name and hit the
space bar once.
 Click on “Close Header/Footer” or click on the “Header/Footer” tools button to close.
 Placing and Punctuating the Parenthetical Reference

To avoid clutter in sentences, MLA recommends placing the parenthetical reference at the end of
the sentence but before the final period. Notice that there is no punctuation mark between the
author’s name and the page citation.

In the nineteenth century, the support golden age of American education, “college

facilities acted as disciplinary tribunals, periodically reviewing violations of rules. . .” (Graff 28).

On some occasions, you may want to place the reference within your sentence to clarify its
relationship to the part of the sentence it documents. In such instances, place the reference at
the end of the clause but before the necessary comma.

Graff suggests that even though college faculties in the nineteenth century “acted as

disciplinary tribunals, periodically reviewing violations of rules” (25), the myth persists that

they taught in the golden age of American education.

When the reference documents a long quotation that is set off from the text, place it at the end
of the passage but after the final period. (See pages 24-25 for a discussion of long quotations.)

Gerald Graff’s description of the college in the nineteenth century corrects the popular

myth about the golden age of American education:

College faculties acted as disciplinary tribunals, periodically reviewing violations

of rules such as those requiring students to attend chapel services early every

morning, to remain in their rooms for hours every day, and to avoid the snares

of town. Nor were these restrictions relaxed for the many students in their late

twenties or older, who lived alongside freshmen as young as fourteen. The

classes themselves, conducted by the system of daily recitations, were said to

have “the fearsome atmosphere of a police-station.” (26)