NoodleTools: Print or Export a Source List

Before you print/export your source list and open it in your word processor or Google Docs, NoodleTools allows you to do some basic formatting. To see the formatting options, click Printer icon at the top of your source list and select Formatting Options…

Keep in mind that formatting options affect only the list that is open. Other projects in your personal folder will not change. The formatting options are:

List title

By default, MLA8 lists are titled “Works Cited,” APA lists are titled “References,” and Chicago lists are titled “Bibliography.” These are the most common titles, but you may want a title that reflects the contents of your particular source list. For example, if you have added annotations to your MLA list, a more descriptive title would be “Annotated List of Works Cited.”

1. Click Print/Export.
2. Under Formatting Options, click Works Cited.
3. If you are creating an MLA8 style list, select one of the titles from the examples listed by clicking on the associated hyperlink, or create your own title by typing a title in and clicking Set Custom Title.

​Page header (MLA8 and APA only)

 A header is generally not required (you can ask your teacher what they require if you aren’t sure). NoodleTools can add the header to your source list for you, correctly formatted (although you will still need to make sure that it also appears throughout your essay).

1. Click Print/Export.
2. Under Formatting Options, click None
3. If you are creating an MLA8 style list, enter your last name and click Set Header.

Include or omit annotations

If you have included annotations in your source list but you do not wish them to appear in the version you print or export, you can omit them:

1. Click Print/Export.
2. Under Formatting Options, click Citations and annotations.
3. Click Print citations only (omit the annotations).

Note that your annotations will no longer appear in your source list, even though you can still edit existing or add new annotations.

Include or omit URLs (MLA9 only)

The current edition of the MLA8 Handbook recommends the inclusion of URLs for online sources (p.48). However the IB requirements are that URLs MUST be included!

 If you have included URLs in your source list but you do not wish them to appear in the version you print or export, you can omit them:

1. Click Print/Export.
2. Under Formatting Options, click URLs are included in exported Works Cited.
3. Click Omit URLs from exported Works Cited.

Note that URLs will no longer appear in your source list, even though you can still see them when you edit the references.

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