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Citation “Cheat” Sheet

Resource CardsONE per source

Resource Cards - examples

Type of source

A: AuthorT: TitleC: City of PublicationP: PublisherY: Year of publication

#: Page numbers? (yes or no)

Source number

Resource Cards - examples

Some of the database sites will create an MLA citation for you. However, to put the information into your NoodleBib, you will have to enter the parts individually

Adding your citations into your Noodlebib

Choose “Create New Project” for your first entry

Each time after that, click on the project title

Adding your citations into your NoodleBib

Choose “Bibliography” either on the top bar or on the components bar

Adding your citations into your NoodleBib

Select the drop-down arrow and select your type of source

Then choose if it is a print or online file. For a book, you will choose “print.”

Adding your citations into your NoodleBibEnter the citation

information into your NoodleBib. If there is more than one author, choose “add” after each author

Adding your citations into your Noodlebib

For a magazine or journal article found through the Ebsco database, you will choose “online.”

Adding your citations into your NoodleBib

When you enter an online source, additional options will pop up. If you are using Ebsco, choose the first answer.

Adding your citations into your Noodlebib

You can copy and paste directly from a website URL to the “website” entry in your NoodleBib. This is a lot easier than typing in all of the symbols!

Adding your citations into your NoodleBib

Printing Your Works Cited Page

To save your works sited page, choose “Print/Export to Word”

Works Cited

Select “Download File” from the top warning bar (it’s okay, I promise!) and then select “open.” THEN, rename and save your bibliography to your PoP folder!

Works Cited

Graf, Christine. “In Search of Monsters.” Faces Oct. 2010: 8-11. Ebsco

Middle Search. Web. 15 Apr. 2011. <http://search.ebscohost.com/

login.aspx?direct=true&db=mih&AN=54395681&site=src-live.>.

Halls, Kelly Milner, Rick Spears, and Roxyanne Young. Tales of the

Cryptids. Plain City, OH: Darby Creek Publishing, 2006. Print.

Terban, Marvin. Ready! Set! Research! New York: Scholastic, 2007. Print.

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Taking Good Notes

Notes – Example 1

Notes – Example 1

Heading

Page #’s

Short notes

Number your cards

Source number on the top right of each card

Notes – Example 2 This circled check mark is my way to remember to look up this information!

Works Cited

Graf, Christine. “In Search of Monsters.” Faces Oct. 2010: 8-11. Ebsco

Middle Search. Web. 15 Apr. 2011. <http://search.ebscohost.com/

login.aspx?direct=true&db=mih&AN=54395681&site=src-live.>.

Halls, Kelly Milner, Rick Spears, and Roxyanne Young. Tales of the

Cryptids. Plain City, OH: Darby Creek Publishing, 2006. Print.

Terban, Marvin. Ready! Set! Research! New York: Scholastic, 2007. Print.