Standard academic formatting

Use the manuscript format that is recommended for your academic discipline. In most English and some other humanities classes, you will be asked to use MLA (Modern Language Association) format (see 57). In most social science classes, such as psychology and sociology, and in most business, education, and health-related classes, you’ll be asked to use APA (American Psychological Association) format (see 62).

The following pages show basic formatting in MLA and APA styles. For complete student papers in MLA and APA formats, see 57b and 62b.