Noodle Tools MLA Works Cited

Library / Learning Resource Center

Hudson County Community College

First, you must Create a

Personal ID

Check availability

Your ID can be anything you like, just so it’s unique.

Click Register

Next step is to Create a New List

Choose the MLA Advanced style for the Humanities such as Literature,

the Arts, and Philosophy.

Name your list in the Description box..

Then click

Create List

Urban Legends

Choose the type of resource you

want to cite.

Choose the type of resource you wish to cite.

Click Create Citation

Answer the questions about your resource.

Click Next

Click Next

Answer each question as

best you can.

More questions that you will need to answer;

usually the default is correct.

Click Next

Here we need information from the book.

Author

Title

Publication City

Publisher

Publication Year

You will find a page in the front part of

the book that has the citation

information you need.

Most books will have a page that

looks like this. Here you can find…

Title

Publication City

Publisher

Author

Publication Year

Your information will look

similar to this.

For help, you may click the blue links for instructions.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page

and click Check For Errors

If there are errors, they will be

highlighted in red.

Correct your errors

Scroll down and click Generate Citation

Your citation will be formatted correctly.

To add another citation, just click the

pull down menu.

And choice another resource.

Answer the questions about your resource.

Journal articles can be found in the

HCCC databases.

Answer all the questions...

then scroll down and click Next

Here we need information from the

journal article.

Name of journal

Author/s

Title of article

Volume number

Issue number

Publication date

Name of database

Date of access

Name of journal

Author

Title of article

Volume number

Publication date

Make sure you remember from which database you got your article.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page

and click Check For Errors

Correct your errors and scroll

down to click Update Citation

Your citation list will be organized and formatted correctly.

To print your citation list, click on the print icon.

You can leave the options as they

are and click Export and Print

Here, you can open as a Word Document.

Save or Print this for your

Work Cited page.

To go back to your list, or to create another, click on My Lists

And either reopen your list to edit or add citations

by clicking the title.

Or, click Create a New List to form a new

Works Cited List.

Remember to Sign Out when you are finished. Your lists will be automatically saved.

To go back to your lists, just sign in with the Personal ID

that you created.

And Click Sign In

Start your Works Cited listby clicking on Noodle Tools on the

Hudson County Community CollegeLibrary Online Research page.

Or click here