Monday, September 14, 2015

NHD Tip of the Day #1: Citing Journal Articles

Citing Journal Articles on NoodleTools

Choose the correct tab on NT. If you find a journal article on Ebsco choose the database tab on NoodleTools (Note: When you search on Ebsco you are actually searching on a number od databases. Choose the right one. e.g., Academic Premier Plus, Business Source Premier, etc.).  .



Preview your citation on EBSCO

You can see what your MLA citation should look like by clicking the little icon on the right side that looks like this



Do not just copy and paste the citation from EBSCO into NT; if you do you will have formatting problems when you export to Word at the end. Put the information in the NT fields.




URLs
URLs are optional in MLA citations. We are asking you to add the URL to the field on NT.
The citation will look clunky with the URL (and different from the EBSCO preview) but don't fret. When we export to Word at the end we will choose not to include URLs.

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