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===Ryan Alcock's MLA package===
Ryan Alcock authored a package that makes typesetting MLA format papers in LaTeX a snap. Little preamble and very easy to use.
Here's the [http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper/mla.sty link] to Alcock's style file. Copy the whole page, paste into a text editor and save as mla.sty. Once that's done, you can always invoke the package in your document.
===MLA Template===
Here's my template for MLA papers in LaTeX. You can easily customize this and make changes to adapt to other formats. I discovered Alcock's package while doing this.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
%
%Margin - 1 inch on all sides
%
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
\geometry{top=1.0in, bottom=1.0in, left=1.0in, right=1.0in}
%
%Doublespacing
%
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing
%
%Babel package for multiple language typesetting
%
%\usepackage[english,german]{babel}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
%
%Setting the font
%
\usepackage{times}
%
%Rotating tables (e.g. sideways when too long)
%
\usepackage{rotating}
%
%For multiple rows in tables
%
\usepackage{multirow}
%
%Line numbering in verse environment
%
\usepackage{lineno}
%
%Fancy-header package to modify header/page numbering (insert last name)
%
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{Last name \thepage}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
%To make sure we actually have header 0.5in away from top edge
%12pt is one-sixth of an inch. Subtract this from 0.5in to get headsep value
\setlength\headsep{0.333in}
%
%Works cited environment
%(to start, use \begin{workscited...}, each entry preceded by \bibent)
% - from Ryan Alcock's MLA style file
%
\newcommand{\bibent}{\noindent \hangindent 40pt}
\newenvironment{workscited}{\newpage \begin{center} Works Cited \end{center}}{\newpage }
%
%Begin document
%
\begin{document}
\begin{flushleft}
%%%%First page name, class, etc
Name\\
Professor \\
Class \\
Date\\
%%%%Title
\begin{center}
Title
\end{center}
%%%%Changes paragraph indentation to 0.5in
\setlength{\parindent}{0.5in}
%%%%Begin body of paper here
%%%%Works cited
\begin{workscited}
\bibent
author's last name, first name. or ``Paper Title." \textit{Book Title}. City: Publisher, Year of publication. Print OR Web date
\end{workscited}
\end{flushleft}
\end{document}
\}
Ryan Alcock authored a package that makes typesetting MLA format papers in LaTeX a snap. Little preamble and very easy to use.
Here's the [http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper/mla.sty link] to Alcock's style file. Copy the whole page, paste into a text editor and save as mla.sty. Once that's done, you can always invoke the package in your document.
===MLA Template===
Here's my template for MLA papers in LaTeX. You can easily customize this and make changes to adapt to other formats. I discovered Alcock's package while doing this.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
%
%Margin - 1 inch on all sides
%
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
\geometry{top=1.0in, bottom=1.0in, left=1.0in, right=1.0in}
%
%Doublespacing
%
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing
%
%Babel package for multiple language typesetting
%
%\usepackage[english,german]{babel}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
%
%Setting the font
%
\usepackage{times}
%
%Rotating tables (e.g. sideways when too long)
%
\usepackage{rotating}
%
%For multiple rows in tables
%
\usepackage{multirow}
%
%Line numbering in verse environment
%
\usepackage{lineno}
%
%Fancy-header package to modify header/page numbering (insert last name)
%
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{Last name \thepage}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
%To make sure we actually have header 0.5in away from top edge
%12pt is one-sixth of an inch. Subtract this from 0.5in to get headsep value
\setlength\headsep{0.333in}
%
%Works cited environment
%(to start, use \begin{workscited...}, each entry preceded by \bibent)
% - from Ryan Alcock's MLA style file
%
\newcommand{\bibent}{\noindent \hangindent 40pt}
\newenvironment{workscited}{\newpage \begin{center} Works Cited \end{center}}{\newpage }
%
%Begin document
%
\begin{document}
\begin{flushleft}
%%%%First page name, class, etc
Name\\
Professor \\
Class \\
Date\\
%%%%Title
\begin{center}
Title
\end{center}
%%%%Changes paragraph indentation to 0.5in
\setlength{\parindent}{0.5in}
%%%%Begin body of paper here
%%%%Works cited
\begin{workscited}
\bibent
author's last name, first name. or ``Paper Title." \textit{Book Title}. City: Publisher, Year of publication. Print OR Web date
\end{workscited}
\end{flushleft}
\end{document}
\}