MLA Style Guidelines in General: Print your document on regular white 8.5 x 11-inch paper after typing it on a computer. Whatever font you use, MLA suggests that the normal and italic type styles differ sufficiently to distinguish one from the other. A 2-pointed star or asterisk can be used instead of "bold" if you prefer. In addition to the guidelines mentioned above, these are some general suggestions for formatting manuscripts in MLA style: Use footnotes rather than endnotes. Put all footnotes at the bottom of the page on which they appear. Make sure that they are placed so that they do not interfere with the placement of figures or tables. Type the full title of a book or article in quotation marks even if you are using only its first paragraph. In general, quotations within the text of your essay should be identified either by including them in quotes (or apostrophes) or by using the In-text Citation method. To create a bibliography or list of sources, follow this standard procedure: Start with an empty line below the last line of the text. Indent the new line two spaces. Now, start entering names of books, articles, interviews, etc. in alphabetic order. Use any style of punctuation to separate items in the list. Separate multiple titles into different lines by adding a comma between each one.