Question

I ve been using LaTeX for a little while now to typeset my algorithms homework, and I really like the quality of the output as well as the ease-of-use. I d like to starting using LaTeX in other classes as well, but non–computer-science subjects have more stringent formatting requirements than I ve come across in CS. Most classes that require essays want them to be formatted in MLA style, but I m not sure what to best way to do that using LaTeX is. I ve tried Googling "latex mla" and other similar things, but I ve found many different MLA templates, and my LaTeX skills aren t good enough to determine which is the best. Is anyone else using LaTeX for "normal" essays, and, if so, how are you doing it?

Answer 1

This is definitely one of the problems with latex at the moment - it s hard to create exact document styles from scratch.

It may be that your school has templates somewhere - my uni certainly had them.

I would have thought the MLA package on CTAN was likely to be of high quality: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper/

(CTAN is the TeX network, and it s useful for finding more packages)

Answer 2

I know this may seem like a late reply, but I think it would help people who are still seeking a good answer to this question. I found this package online called MLA13 that does everything for you. I used it in quite a few of my papers already. The thing that s good about it is that it uses your .bib files and formats everything according to MLA standards.

The website for this is:

Documentation: https://github.com/jackson13info/mla13/blob/master/Documentation.pdf

Download the Sty File: https://github.com/jackson13info/mla13/blob/master/mla13.sty

Github: https://github.com/jackson13info/mla13

Answer 3

You should google "bibtex mla" since bibtex handles references and biblographic information. My first google turned up http://www.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/bibtexstyles.html, which shows an MLA formatted style that looks correct (I was an english major :P, I wish I would have known about latex in college)

EDIT: This site looks awesome: put in the ISBN number, and then you can export straight to the bibtex format. Wish I would have had this in college too, as manual formatting of refs always took me a long time and it was annoying as all hell. http://www.ottobib.com/

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