Biblatex and mla-paper making weird headings

Question

I'm trying to use mla-paper and biblatex with MLA style in the same document so I can have a managed bibliography but with the whole document in MLA. I seem to have it working almost properly, but it produces a bibliography heading that is larger than the title of the document. I'm getting this error:

Package Fancyhdr Warning: \headheight is too small (12.0pt): 
Make it at least 14.49998pt.
We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.`

But I'm not really sure what to do with it. It seems like it's making the bibliography heading bigger than I'd like it to. How can I fix this?

Either a direct solution or more general tips on better ways to use MLA with BibTex and LaTeX would be great. Thanks.

Update

Here's a full minimal example of what I'm doing and a link to an image of what I'm getting.

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=mla]{biblatex}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\usepackage{mla}
\bibliography{../Bibliography/Bibliography}
\begin{document}
\begin{mla}{Stephen}{Searles}{Schultz}{Queering American History}{\today}{Week 7}
Test sentence. \autocite{Somerville:2005fk}. 
\begin{center}
\printbibliography
\end{center}
\end{mla}
\end{document}

Along with a standard BibTex file with that cite key, of course. It's citing properly as you'll see, so that's not the problem.

Answer 1

The main problem you have is the size of your "Works Cited" part. This is because the label is being generated by the biblatex-mla and not by the mla package. To fix this you could enclose the bibliography in the mla's workscited environment and redefine biblatex's bibheading to nothing. Alternatively, you can simply redefine bibheading to what the mla package defines it as, which is simpler:

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=mla]{biblatex}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\usepackage{mla}
\defbibheading{bibliography}{\newpage\centering Works Cited}
\bibliography{../Bibliography/Bibliography}
\begin{document}
\begin{mla}{Stephen}{Searles}{Schultz}{Queering American History}{\today}{Week 7}
Test sentence. \autocite{Somerville:2005fk}. 
\begin{center}
\printbibliography
\end{center}
\end{mla}
\end{document}

The mla package leaves a lot to be desired. It should use the setspace package for linespacing, instead of simply using \linespread. It also has a manual hack \tab for indenting paragraphs after sections, among other things. But if it is more or less working for you, that's ok. I don't know of an equivalent package for this kind of use.

Answer 2

I know this may seem like a late reply, but I think it would help people who are still seeking a good answer to this question. I found this package online called MLA13 that does everything for you. I used it in quite a few of my papers already. The thing that's good about it is that it uses your .bib files and formats everything according to MLA standards.

The website for this is:

Documentation: http://jackson13.info/mla13/Documentation.pdf

Github: https://github.com/jackson13info/mla13

This package formats the header according to mla style by centering it and making it of font size 12.