citations

NoodleTools

NoodleTools is an excellent resource for helping you organize your research and prepare bibliographies. With it, you can:

- Create Works Cited lists in either MLA and APA formats.

- Annotate the resources you used in your research.

- Create notecards to better organize your research.

- Save your works cited lists as Word documents.

- Print your works cited lists.

- Share your works cited lists with your classmates and your teachers.

Best of all, it's a FREE resource to you! Click here to find out more about how to use NoodleTools or click here to go directly to the NoodleTools database.

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MLA Format

Book

Author’s last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, year published.

Schwabacher, Martin. Puerto Rico. New York: Benchmark Books, 2001.

Article from Online Database

Author’s last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Print Publication Volume # (Year): page(s). Name of Database. Name of

Company. LCHS Library, Lake Villa, IL. Date accessed <electronic address>.

Cooke, Miriam. "Baghdad Burning: Women Write War in Iraq." World Literature Today. 81. 6 (Nov-Dec 2007): 23(4). Student Resource Center - Silver.

Thomson Gale. LCHS Library. 8 Jan. 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=SRC-2>.

Reference Book

Author’s last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Source. Edition.Year published.

Pettigrew, Thomas F. "Chile." The World Book Encyclopedia. 1998.

Website

Author’s last name, First name. “Title.” Site title. Date last updated. Sponsor. Date accessed <electronic address>.

Purdue University Online Lab. “MLA Formatting and Style Guide.” 2007. Purdue University. 12 Dec. 2007 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/>.

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MLA Resources

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition

A style manual for preparing research papers. Includes information about how to format works cited pages and how to format various types of citations.

Call # REF 808 GIB PB

MLA Formatting and Style - Online Writing Lab (OWL) from Purdue University

Provides detailed information and examples for creating works cited lists (including how to cite a wide variety of sources) and for creating in-text citations for quotations, footnotes, and endnotes.

MLA List of Works Cited - Diana Hacker

Provides information about creating MLA works cited entries for a wide variety of sources.

MLA Citation Style - Long Island University

Provides color-coded examples of works cited entries.

MLA Citation - University of North Carolina

Provides information about why sources need to be cited, what needs to be cited, how to use parenthetical citations, how to use works cited lists (includes how to cite various sources).

MLA Citation Guide - Ohio State University

Provides information about how to cite various sources.

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