Hi everyone, this is David and welcome to this video on how to format your paper in MLA, the ninth edition. Today we'll be using Microsoft Word. But keep in mind that you can apply these same settings to Google Docs or virtually any word processing program that you have. Also remember that this video is only about formatting your paper for instruction on your in text and work cited citations. Take a look at the next video. And lastly, remember that these are just guidelines. Anything that you see in this video or read in the MLA handbook can be changed by your teacher to fit his or her needs. Okay, let's jump in. First, open up a new document by choosing a blank document. It's a good idea to go ahead and save your document so the changes will be automatically saved as you work on them. Go to File, Save As and select the location where you want to save your paper. Enter your file name and click Save. First, change the default font settings to an easily readable font such as Times New Roman, and the font size to 12 points. Now set the proper margins. At the top menu, select the Layout tab. Then select margins at the left and make sure that Normal is selected. This sets all margins to one inch. Next we'll need to change the line spacing. To do this select Paragraph to open the paragraph box. Under spacing, set up line spacing to double then after colon to zero points. Then click OK. Next, we'll create the running head. To see the header area. Double click at the top of the page. Select the page number menu item, then top of page. Then page number three. This will align the page numbers to the right of the page. Add your last name in front of the page number. Double click within the page to exit the header area and create your title page. Next, we'll create your paper's heading. On the first line, type your name, press enter, and next enter the name of your instructor. On the next line, enter your course number. Finally, on the last line, enter the date. Your title will go on the next line after your heading. Hit Enter and click center in the toolbar to center align your title. Type the title of your paper in title case with the major words capitalized. Your paper will begin on the line following the title. Each paragraph of your paper should be indented one half inch. Left align then press tab for the one half inch indentation and then start your paragraph. Next you'll need to create your Works Cited section. To do this, go to Insert and Page Break. On the new page, select the Home tab and click center in the toolbar to center align. Then type Works Cited. Press Enter. Click on the left margin button to move back to left aligned text. Bring up the paragraph Settings menu. Under indentation, change the drop down menu under Special to Hanging. This will make the second line of each reference citation indented under the first. Now you're ready to start writing your paper. Thanks for watching. I hope it helped. As usual. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment section below. In the meantime, take a look at this next video on in-text citations and Works Cited citations. They're relatively straightforward, and I don't think you're going to have any problem with them. See you in the next video.