The Taft School Library

Welcome to NoodleTools

WHERE YOU CAN…

Create your bibliographyCreate notecards

Organize your notecardsBuild your outline

Save all your projects, bibliographies, and notecards

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ViewTutorials

Features of NoodleTools How to cite different types of sources

Is this your first visit?Create a Personal ID

Once you’ve created an account, login here

Complete all of the fields of the

registration form and click Register.

Remember to select your year of graduation here.

Your NoodleTools Toolbar

Chicago/Turabian styleand

Advanced levelare Taft’s defaults for History papers.

Your English teacher will prefer MLA.

Name your paperand click

Create Project

My Projects page with the first project

RELAX! If you accidentally choose

the wrong style, you can easily change it to the correct one

Pull-down under Option and choose Change Style

Welcome to your Project Dashboard

Type your Research Question andThesis Statement here

See when you created andupdated your project

Click here to view your log of work on this project

If your teacher has set up a NoodleTools drop box,you can share your work with him/her.

Remember to check the box to share your Google Docs paper as well as your bibliography

Type your teacher’s name here and choose the Drop Box for your class.Click Share Project.

You will see a log of your teacher’s comments here

Working in a group?You can collaborate in real time in NoodleTools.

Click Show me how to view the tutorial.

Access your bibliography, notecards and outline

from Components

You can also open them from the toolbar

The Taft History Department requires that you use Google Docs.

Login to Google with your Taft email address and network password to work on your paper.

Create a To Do listTip: enter deadlines here

Starting a new Bibliography

Choose your source typefrom the pull-down menu

and click on Create citation

You may view the tutorial explaining the source type you’ve selected.

Click Continue.

(Ask a Librarian if you’re not sure.Don’t worry though, NoodleTools

will let you change it later if you need to)

Complete the form for your source typeExample: Citing a print book

Enter the following for a print book:Contributor (author or editor)

TitlePublisher

Place of publication Year of publication

(Edition and Series, if given)

You may change the type of itemyou’re citing from the source

using this pull-down menu

Change the overall source typeusing this pull-down menu

You can choose Quick Cite to Copy & Paste a citation

(found in an electronic database or on a website, for instance)

Once the fields are filled,scroll down and click on Submit

Leave this checkbox checked !

Your new bibliography

NoodleTools automatically saves

your citations

Edit, Copy or Delete a citation

Click New to create notecards that are automatically linked to your sources

See Notecards tutorial

Go to Notecards in the menu bar to organize your notecards

and create an outline.

See the Virtual Tabletop tutorial

Click on Footnote Format to open a new window with your footnote for this source

Provides the format for the first footnote and subsequent footnotes.

Also explains more about footnotes including the use of “Ibid.”

Add page number of a quotation / paraphrase in Customize the example

and NoodleTools will autofill the footnotes above

Email your bibliography

Check boxes to email both your outline and notecards

Export and Print your bibliography

Your Ready-to-Print BibliographyChicago/Turabian Style

Tip: Copy and paste to your paperin Google Docs

Keep all your projects!

And create new ones

Questions?Ask us or go to Help