Lesson 6: Creating a Research Paper

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Learning Objectives

After studying this lesson, you will be able to:

Insert footnotes, endnotes, and citations

Generate a bibliography

Insert captions and a table of figures

Create templates

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Using Research Paper Styles

MLA: Modern Language Association

MLA Style: Standard for undergraduate and graduate

research papers

The MLA publishes the Modern Language Association

Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

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MLA Style

MLA style has very specific formatting requirements,

some of which are defaults within Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word does not comply with all MLA

guidelines by default

Refer to www.mla.org

MLA Style Sample

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Footnotes, Endnotes, and Citations

Inserting footnotes & endnotes

Location, convert, number format, and starting number

Inserting citations

Editing and formatting footnotes & endnotes

Editing a citation

Deleting footnotes

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Working with Bibliographies

A list of sources cited in a document

The Bibliography button’s three options: Bibliography,

References, and Works Cited

Works Cited option for the MLA style does not format

the title, paragraph spacing, or line spacing correctly

Updating: Right-click

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Captions and Tables of Figures

Inserting Captions

Insert text associated with figures

Edit and format captions

Change the numbering format

Inserting a Table of Figures

Guides a reader to illustrations, charts, tables, etc.

Easily updated with a right-click

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Working with Templates

All Word documents are based on templates

Can include text, formatting, graphics, or formats

Default template is a blank document

Templates do not change

Lets you repeatedly start with the same document

Lesson 6: Creating a Research Paper