MLA rules: You have the formatting page on the Home Page of the website that shows you basics about formatting your paper. Five line header; page numbers with last name on all pages (except the first page) at the top right hand of the page, no page number on Works Cited page (its recommended that you create a new document for a Works Cited); one inch margins; double-space the entire paper; title centered (and your title does not require quotation marks or italics unless you incorporate the title of the piece youre analyzing, and then only the title of that piece will be designated).

Italics are used to denote: magazines, journals, novels, movies, plays, newspapers, database titles, websites Quotation marks should go around these titles: short stories, poems, songs, essay and...