Noodlebib will walk you through the process of setting up a Works Cited page.  To get to Noodlebib, go to the Library’s page (http://library.sccsc.edu ) and click on “A-Z database List.”  Noodlebib is about halfway down the right hand column. If you are off-campus, you will be taken to our off-campus page and will need to enter the off-campus username and password. Once you get to Noodelbib, it will have another login screen.

First time users: click on “Create a Personal ID” to set up a personal ID and password so you can have a noodlebib account.
Be sure to remember your personal ID and password so you can go back into Noodlebib. 

Once you have your account, you will be taken to your "My Lists” page. Click on “Create a new list” to create a works cited list. Step one is to select the format (select “MLA advanced” or "APA"), and then in step 2 give it a descriptive name (i.e. “Eng. 101 paper” or “Eng 102 short story”), then click on “start adding citations.” 

You will be taken to the "Bibliography” page.  Near the top, there is the phrase “Cite a” and a drop down box. You will select what it is you are citing (magazine article, journal article, book, reference book or website, etc).  Even if your book or article came from one of the library’s databases—i.e. Gale Databaseetc, still select "book" or "article". There will be a screen later asking whether or not your source was “print” or “online”. There you will select online if it came from one of the Library’s databases. Make your selection and click on "Create Citation." 

Once you make a selection, you will be taken through a series of screens asking you questions about your source. When you first use Noodlebib, read everything and follow along carefully—once you get the hang of it, it will go much faster. It is wordy because MLA and APA are so precise.  There are a lot of phrases such as “Click here for instructions” or “Advanced help with Names” or “what words should be capitalized” that you can click on that will show you the right way to enter the name, title, publisher, etc. To move from screen to screen, use the buttons at the bottom of the page.    

When you get to the final screen, one of the buttons at the bottom will say “generate citation.”   Click on this and you will be taken back to the “Bibliography” page and you will see your citation listed in MLA format. Remember you need to enter the right information in the right boxes for it to come out correct and you need to follow advice given in the hyperlinked phrases (such as the “click here”  or “more help”) to make sure you get the capitalization and other formatting issues correct.  Noodlebib will do all the underlining, etc.     

To add another citation, again use the “Citing a” and select from the drop down box. When you are done entering in your citations, you will see them all on the  "Bibliography” page, listed by type of source. Your options for creating a Works Cited page are listed up at the top of the "Bibliography” page.  Click on “Save as Word Doc” to save it as an RTF document (A format that can be opened by Word, Works, Word Perfect and a lot of other word processing programs).   When you do this, you will see your Works Cited page created, with the entries in alphabetical order.   

Give yourself some time to get familiar with Noodlebib. In the long run, this will save you lots of time!

Noodlebib Tutorial (video)

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