• How to do a “hanging indent”

    Word/Office 365:

    Type your bibliographic information in alphabetic order – only hit “ENTER” at the end of each citation.  After you have typed your entire bibliography, follow these steps:

    1.    Highlight citations

    2.    On “home” screen, go to “Paragraph”

    3.    Indentation -> Special -> Hanging -> OK

    Google Drive/Docs

    Type your bibliographic information in alphabetic order – only hit “ENTER” at the end of each citation.  After you have typed your entire bibliography, follow these steps:

    1.    View → Show ruler

    2.    Highlight citations

    3.    On the ruler, drag the ▼Left Indent (light blue inverted triangle ▼) to the right as far as you want the text to be indented. As you will notice, the ▃ First Line Indent marker (light blue rectangle ▃) will come along for the ride, and all your selected text will move to the right.

    4.    On the ruler, drag the ▼Left Indent (light blue inverted triangle ▼) to the right as far as you want the text to be indented. As you will notice, the ▃ First Line Indent marker (light blue rectangle ▃) will come along for the ride, and all your selected text will move to the right.

    5.    YouTube link to watch for extra help:  https://youtu.be/DWnWy5qnkLk or Search “MLA hanging indent in Google Doc”