How to Cite a Book Chapter from EBSCOhost Literary Reference Center in NoodleTools/NoodleBib

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Getting Started in NoodleTools/NoodleBib

• Log into your account• Open the list you have created for this

research project/assignment• Have your information source available and

at your fingertips (in this case, it will be the live version of the article in the EBSCOhost Literary Reference Center database).

Begin by looking at the publication information at the beginning of the article. If you see a specific publication date with a month/year or season/year, it is a journal; if you see just a year, it is a reference book in this database. In example, we are working with a book.

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4Finding the Publication Information

1. Choose “print” when you click on the title of the article (see previous screenshot on preceding slide)

2. Choose “Citation Format” and “MLA” from the dropdown menu on the right under “Include when printing”

3. Press “print”; when the print box opens, close it and you will see a screen with publication information.

5Finding the Publication Information

You should now see the publication information; note you will also see the persistent link (the correct URL) for this article). We can now start adding information to the NoodleTools wizard.

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Starting the Wizard

• Choose “online database” • Press “create citation”

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Book Information

• Online database screen: choose “book” and next;

• Book, Tell Us More About the Source: Choose “a special section of the book” and “yes, I will provide details about original print publication.”

• Select next

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Adding Basic Information

• You will now enter as much publication information as possible

• Fields with an asterisk (*) must be completed

• Rarely will you ever have the information for every information field in NoodleTools/NoodleBib; they try to give you as many options as possible.

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Basic Book Information

1. Authors of the Book (in this case, Maria Lauret and Harold Bloom). You will add one name at a time and press “add”.

Title of the Book (in italic print

Copyright year of the book is in parenthesis.

Note: EBSCOhost typically does not provide the city of publication or publisher for books. Leave these fields blank if the information is not provided.

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Information About the Section (Essay/Chapter) of the Book

The title of the essay or book chapter (section of the book) is in quotation marks. Enter this information in the box called “Title of Section”; leave “Type of Section” at the pre-selected choice.

Page numbers

Do not complete the field for “editors” unless you see names accompanied by the abbreviation “ed.”

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Additional Information

• This particular database is a little unusual in that they typically do not provide any other publication information that we normally might look for (i.e.: series name) in a book. Leave these fields blank.

• Continue now to enter the persistent (permalink) for the URL

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Database Name

Database name is in italic print

Hints: As you start to type the database name, NoodleTools will recognize it and autofill it for you once you select it.

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URL

Copy and paste the permalink into the URL field

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Final Steps

• Check for MLA style errors. If any items are flagged in red, ask your teacher what he/she prefers you do---sometimes you may need t make MLA style corrections, but at other times, your teacher may tell you to ignore the suggested change.

• Generate the citation

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Final Result