mla.cls

LaTeX class for MLA papers.

Abstract

In the United States, secondary and undergraduate students are generally expected to adhere to the format prescribed by the Modern Language Association (MLA) for typewritten essays, research papers and writings. Sadly, the tool of choice is usually Microsoft Word, even amongst those fluent with TeX.

Though there are some templates and tools to aid in writing in the MLA format using LaTeX, none fully met the expectations of the author. So voilà, there now exists an mla.cls proper: a simple, straightforward class for composing papers almost perfectly adherent to the MLA style guide.

Documentation

Documentation and source are combined into a .dtx file, as is typical for LaTeX packages. To read the documentation, run mla.dtx through LaTeX:

$ pdflatex mla.dtx
$ gv mla.dtx

(If you're getting this package from CTAN, a file called mla.pdf should already be provided.)

For an example file, refer to mla-example.tex and mla-example.bib, or to the appendix in the documentation.

Installation

Run mla.ins through LaTeX:

$ latex mla.ins

Once finished, move the output mla.cls to your local texmf directory.

Authorship & licensing

mlacls copyright 2019 Seth Price (sprice623 AT aol DOT com). Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c.

See CHANGELOG.md for version history.

Contributing

Submit a merge request on the GitLab repository. I rarely look at the GitHub mirror.

Bugs

Refer to BUGS.md. Please report any bugs to the issue tracker.