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NoodleTools Tutorial

NoodleTools Tutorial. Katherine Bertolucci Northcentral University July 27, 2007. First You Have to Find It. From your Learner home page, click NCU Library Under Databases / Tools, click Find Citation Help Click NoodleTools. New User?. At the login, click New User Registration

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NoodleTools Tutorial

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  1. NoodleTools Tutorial Katherine Bertolucci Northcentral University July 27, 2007

  2. First You Have to Find It • From your Learner home page, click NCU Library • Under Databases / Tools, click Find Citation Help • Click NoodleTools

  3. New User? • At the login, click New User Registration • Select I Am a Student or Library Patron • Enter a Personal ID, Password and last four digits of your phone number • Click Register • You can take a tour if you want. It’s under Software Tools • You can download the User’s Guide from the Help Page

  4. Getting Ready to Work • When you are logged in, click Create a New List • Select APA Advanced • Name your list in the Description field • Click Create List • Click Start Adding Citations

  5. The Resource Claudia M. Cuddy Demystifying APA Style Orthopedic Nursing Sep/Oct, 2002 Volume 21, number 5, pages 35-42 ProQuest Document ID 229203381

  6. What Kind of Citation? • In the Cite A: drop down list, select Journal and click Create Citation • Confirm that you really want Journal and click Next • Select Online and click Next • Under Tell Us More about this Source, select A Basic Journal Article • Under Information about Online Retrieval of this Source, select Aggregated Database, then click Next

  7. What’s the Title? • In the Name of Journal field, enter “Orthopedic Nursing” (title capitalization) • In the Title of Article field, enter “Demystifying APA style” (sentence capitalization) • Note that NoodleTools offers advice on capitalization to the right of the fields

  8. Who Wrote It? • In the First Name field, enter “Claudia” or “C.” • In the Middle Name field, enter “M.” • In the Last Name or Group/Corporation field, enter “Cuddy” and click Add • Note that the name is added to the list below

  9. Publication Details • In the Page Number(s) field, enter “35-42” • In the Volume Number field, enter “21” • In the Issue Number field, enter “5” • In the Publication Date fields, enter “2002” for the year. • Because this is a scholarly journal, you do not need the month, but note how you would enter month and day

  10. Online Retrieval Details • In the Date of Access field, enter your retrieval date. • In the Name of Aggregated Database field, enter “ProQuest” • ProQuest does not require a URL, but note where you would enter that. • In the Item / Accession Number field, enter “229203381” (optional) • Also note where you would enter an annotation

  11. Almost Done • Click Check for Errors and make your corrections (errors are indicated in red) • Click Update Citation • Your citations are listed in Reference List order, i.e. alphabetical order, but you can sort them in other ways. • If you need to make more changes, click the pencil to the right of the reference

  12. Intext Citation • For guidance on the correct intext citation, click Parenthetical Reference to the right of the reference • Note that this screen also gives you general advice on intext citations

  13. Here It Is! Cuddy, C. M. (2002). Demystifying APA style. OrthopedicNursing, 21(5), 35-42. Retrieved July 27, 2007, from ProQuest database (229203381). Intext citation: (Cuddy, 2002)

  14. APA Rules for this Citation American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. • Journal Article, One Author: p. 240 • Aggregated Databases: p. 278 • Intext Citation for One Work by One Author: p. 207

  15. Copy Your Entire Reference List • In the top toolbar, select Save as Word Doc • The default options appear as underlined hyperlinks. Click the option to modify it • You can Preview your list but it will not have correct NCU formatting • Under Export and Print, click Click Here • In the file download box, click Save and save it to the appropriate folder • The list is double spaced. NCU uses single spacing for references with a double space between references, so you will have to edit the formatting

  16. Copy a Reference into Another Reference List • Find the reference you want to copy and click the middle icon to the right of it, between the pencil and the red X. • Select Another List in this Folder and enter the name of the list. Click Copy • The list that next appears is the original list. Click Click Here to see the citation in the new list.

  17. Copy a Single Reference into Your Paper • You can also just cut and paste the reference. • When you paste the reference into your paper, you will probably have to do some reformatting

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