|In word processing, a hanging indent is a paragraph that has all lines but the first indented. The first line meets the left margin and the succeeding lines are indented at a fixed distance from the left margin. A hanging indent is also known as a hanging paragraph.
Hanging indents are commonly used when writing MLA citations.
An example of what a hanging indent looks like:
Author Last Name, First (if available). "Article Title." Title of Newspaper [City, if
needed]. Publishing date, edition (if given, abbreviate ed), section letter or number:
page. (if more than one page, add plus (+) sign. Print.
To format your document with hanging indents:
1. Open a Word document.
2. From the menu bar click on Format -- Paragraph.
3. In the Paragraph window, be sure the Indents and Spacing tab is selected.
Under the Indentation category, click the button under Special: and click Hanging at the bottom of the list. Click the OK button.