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US History - Civil Rights: Citing Your Sources

What is a Citation?

Any time you turn in work that includes information, ideas, pictures, music, charts, graphs, quotes, videos not created by you, you need to give credit to the creator. We use the same format on how to do this so that all the pertinent information (author, title, date, etc.) is included and easy to find. That format is a citation.

At Memorial, we have an online tool to help us build those citations: NoodleTools. 

Citing from Databases

  1. Log in to NoodleTools and choose your project.
  2. In a different tab, find your article in the database.
  3. Click the Cite tool.
  4. Find and click the export to NoodlTools.
  5. Review the citation and the project it'll save to.
  6. Click Import Reference.
  7. Go back to your NoodleTools Sources tab and refresh. You should see your citation.

Citing a Website

  1. Log in to NoodleTools and open your project
  2. Click Sources on the left, then +New Source on the right
  3. Choose where your source is coming from
  4. Choose what type of material you are citing
  5. Work your way down the page, filling in as much information as you can
  6. Click Save at the top

 

Bibliography/Works Cited Page

  1. Log in to NoodleTools and open your project
  2. Click on Sources on the left
  3. Check to see that your citations are sorted alphabetically
  4. Click on the printer icon, select Formatting Options, and review them
  5. Click on the printer icon again and select Print/Export to Word
  6. Check to see where your document is saving and rename it
  7. Open your document and make sure it's Autosaving to OneDrive