NoodleTools Tutorial

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NoodleTools Tutorial

• Katherine Bertolucci
• Northcentral University
• July 27, 2007

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First You Have to Find It

• From your Learner home page, click NCU Library
• Under Databases / Tools, click Find Citation Help
• Click NoodleTools

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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. Its under
  Software Tools
• You can download the Users Guide from the Help
  Page

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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

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The Resource

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

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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

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Whats 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Here It Is!

• Cuddy, C. M. (2002). Demystifying APA style.
  Orthopedic Nursing, 21(5), 35-42. Retrieved July
  27, 2007, from ProQuest database (229203381).
• Intext citation (Cuddy, 2002)

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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

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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

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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.

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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