How to Citea Print or Electronic

Encyclopedia / Reference Source using NoodleTools

The Taft School Library

10/2014

Are you using a Print Reference Book?

Choose Reference Source

You may choose to view the tutorial defining a Reference Source.

Click either Continue button.

NoodleTools defaultsto the form for a print Reference Source

IMPORTANT!Is your article from one of

Taft’s subscription databasessuch as Gale Virtual Reference Library?

If you’re using an electronic databasesuch as the Gale Virtual Reference Library,

you may begin with Database

And then choose Reference Sourcefrom the list of Database content

For online Database articles, you’ll specify the name of the database

Leave DOI, URL and Database Accession Number fields blank;they are not needed at Taft.

Choose the database name from the pop-up list

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For example, Gale Virtual Reference Library

Click on today to autofill the date

For both Print and Database sources,you’ll enter information about the article

and the Reference source it is in.

In an electronic databasethe information about your Reference source is at the beginning of the article

And so is the Title and Author of the article

Many databases provide a sample citation at the end of the article.

Notice it’s in MLA format here.

You can copy & paste the individual parts (author, article title, etc) into NoodleTools

Fill in information about the article: Author’s nameTitle of articlePage numbers

(Page numbers are not always available in an electronic database)

For the Reference Source itself, you’ll provide:Editor or Author

Title (and vol. # if given)Publisher and Place of Publication

Year of publicationEdition if needed (for example, 3rd)

You can look up the Reference Source in RhinoCatto easily find the information you need :

Title of the Reference SourceEditor

Place of publicationName of publisherDate of publication

You may also import the information from WorldCat using the ISBN number

(International Standard Book Number)

You can find the ISBN number in RhinoCat or in the Database(ISBN = International Standard Book Number)

Important!Be sure to verify that the

WorldCat result matches your sourcebefore you import it

Edit the imported information, if necessary

You would want to delete these, for instance

Choose Continue to import

ONE OTHER THING: Don’t check this box!If you do, the publication information of your source

will NOT appear in your bibliography

Choose Submit

Your bibliography with yournew Reference Source citation

You can edit, copy or delete the citation

Click on Footnote Format for the pop-up windowshowing the format for your first footnote

and subsequent notes.

Customize the example with the page number of your

quotation or paraphraseand NoodleTools will autofill the

footnotes above.

Note: Page numbers aren’t always available in electronic sources.

Copy and Paste footnotes

into your paper

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