Formatting your research paper

Formatting for your paper will look different depending on whether your paper is MLA or APA. Formatting includes things like title page, in text citations, and reference page.

If you use Noodletools and select the appropriate style guide (MLA or APA), it will properly format your reference page (works referenced or works cited page) for you. Noodletools also gives you examples of what the in text citations should look like for each source. Refer to the page about Noodletools for more information.

For other formatting information (ie: title page, section headings, how the reference page is included) please refer to the Purdue OWL site, or the sample Google Docs templates below. (sample titling information is below)

APA formatting guide

MLA formatting guide

The examples below were found on Google Drive templates. You can find them there, or you can open these, make a copy for yourself and edit the text to suit your purposes. The one on the left is for APA, the one on the right is for MLA.

Below is a screencast of how to set up the MLA formatting, including instructions about how to set up a header, how to double space, how to insert a page break.