The document outlines the common formats for research papers, specifically focusing on MLA style, which requires specific margins, spacing, and header formatting. It distinguishes MLA from APA and Chicago/Turabian formats, noting differences such as the requirement of title pages and footnotes in the latter styles. The document emphasizes the importance of content over formatting and offers services for assistance in proper formatting.

1. Research Paper Format
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2. The Most Common Formats of a Research
Paper
MLA APA
Chicago
Turabian

3. Paper
Your paper should be twenty-
pound, 81/2- by 11-inch and of a
white color.
MLA Research Paper Format
Margins
You should put 1-inch
margins all over your paper -
on the both sides, top and
bottom.
Each paragraph should be put
half an inch from the margin.

4. Spacing: double.
Title page. MLA style does not require title pages.
At the left top corner of your first page type your name, the
name of your professor, the course name and the date - each
item on a separate line (with double spacing).
Then you should write a title. It shouldn’t be bold or underlined,
simply use capital letters to write the principal words of it.
The title may be in a question form or contain an exclamation
mark.

5. Page headers
Each page of your paper
should have a page header,
consisting of a page number
and your last name.
Make sure that the page
number is one-half inch from
the top and one inch from the
right side of the sheet.
Tables
If you add different tables
into you paper, make sure
you name it «Table 1»,
«Table 2» and so on.
If you want to attach any
other materials such as
images, charts or anything
else you should label them
«Figure 1», «Figure 2», etc.

6. The main differences between MLA format and the others (APA
and Chicago/Turabian):
•APA and Chicago/Turabian require the title page in contrast to
MLA;
•Chicago/Turabian style should contain footnotes;
•Each of the styles has a completely different way of arranging
the list of references.
There are a lot of other distinguishing features of each paper
format, so you have to be attentive and careful applying one of
them to your paper.
Other Research Paper Formats

7. Be Attentive to the Whole Work
it is necessary to choose the right format for
your research paper and to apply it correctly;
however, there are more important issues like
the contents and sensical burden of your
paper;
the main focus should be put on the writing
itself;
after the whole work is done, revised and
proofread, one is to start formatting.

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