Select a Citation Guide

Check your syllabus or ask your professor if you're not sure which style to use!

Most Common Styles

• MLA is most often used in English, literature, composition, and the humanities
• APA is most common in psychology, anthropology, business, economics, education, political science, and other social sciences
• Chicago/Turabian are most frequently used in history and some social sciences

Other Styles

• ACS is used in the field of chemistry
• AMA is used in medicine, health publications, and athletic training
• ASA is used in sociology
• CSE/CBE is used in biology and many natural sciences

Select a style to get started:

Citation Managers

Creating a NoodleTools Account

Follow these steps the first time you use NoodleTools:

Enter your Plymouth State email address, eg. username@plymouth.edu

Login with your Plymouth State username and password

Decide if you want to allow NoodleTools to have permission to access your Office365 profile

(Plymouth State subscribes to Office365, which NoodleTools uses for single sign-on access)

Choose whether you want to remain logged in to your account

If you already have a NoodleTools account, you may choose to link it to the one you're creating

If you do not have a NoodleTools account already, or don't want to link it, create a new account instead

Select the year you plan to graduate

Once you are in, select "New Project" to begin making a references list

Project title: You might want to name it after the assignment you are working on

Citation level: This determines how many different choices you have when selecting the format (book, journal, video, etc.).  We recommend Junior or Advanced.

Select "Sources" to start adding items to your list of references

When you select "Create New Citation" you find the right format for the item you are citing

You should be off and running!