MLA Formatting on Google Docs Without Templates
If you do not wish to use templates for your formatting then you can also do this. MLA formatting in Google Docs is possible without Templates also. However, this will be a little elaborate to do so.
Step 1: Open New Document
Open Google Docs on your computer or laptop. Open the new document or an already existing one where you want to apply MLA Formatting.
Step 2: Select Font Type and Size
Choose your font type to be Times New Roman and then change the font size to 12 points.
Step 3: Go to Insert, Click on Headers & Footers and Select Header
Click on the Insert tab and then select the option of headers and footers and then header.
Insert> Headers and Footers> Header.
(Make sure the font is the same as selected earlier.)
Step 4: Select Alignment
Select right align and type your last name.
Step 5: Click on Page Numbers and Select desired Page
Then click Insert, page numbers, and add the one that displays.
Step 6: Set the margin
Then, go to file, page set up, and then set the margin to 1 inch or 2.54 cm.
Note: Usually, margins are set to 1 inch by default, but we reccommend to check it once.
Step 7: Go to Line & Paragraph Spacing and Select Double
Click on-line spacing, a dropdown menu will appear, select double among the given options and also if there are spaces after paragraph then in the same dropdown also select remove space after paragraph.
Step 8: Enter Details of the Report
On the MLA heading include your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date of the assignment all on separate lines. Press enter on the keyboard once, then write the tittle of the text.
Keep the text simple and classy, no need to use bold or italics or underline. Capitalize all words in the title except for small words like articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
Step 9: Change Alignment and Indentation
Press enter on the keyboard, and then align the text to the left. Indent the sentences, by dragging the ruler on top of the document. After this drag the rectangle to half an inch or 1.27 cm.
Step 10: Go to Insert, Click on Break and Select Page Break
Access the Insert Tab. A dropdown will appear. Click on break, and then select Page Break from the further displayed dropdown.
How to MLA format in Google Docs
There are times when you want to write a thesis, report, or simply do your work in an organized way for clarity. It may even be the case that you want to do some projects for your school or college work, etc. For such work editing every step takes lots of time and effort. There is no need to do all this manually when Google Docs has provided you the option of Modern Language Association for this purpose and makes your work considerably easy.