Consult the official MLA Handbook, available without login using school WIFI.
You are required to use one of two citation tools to create your in-text citations and Work Cited.
Option 1. NoodleTools
Recommended tutorials:
Option 2. MyBib
Recommended:
Use the Chrome browser extension for MyBib
Support for citations will be provided through these two citation tools. Use of an outside citation tool is not allowed and no citation support will be given if you use a citation tool that is not listed above.
Understand the functions of the NoodleTools citation tool
Understand the functions of the MyBib citation tool
Understand "What is a scholarly source?"
Understand the Footnotes Guideline at CIS
Understand "What are complex in-text citations?"
Practice citing your own Figures & Tables for the IB (especially relevant for TOK)
If you attended CIS from Y7-10, you are familiar with NoodleTools
Can create different folders for different projects
Generates in-text citations
Can share your folder with a teacher (label folder with your name)
Alphabetizes and formats Work Cited
Has a form to cite AI or create custom citations
Notecards and outline function - access NoodleTools Notecard video tutorial here
Can import citations from JSTOR, EBSCO, Gale
Can import book by ISBN
Provides feedback on how to improve your citations as you fill out the forms. Feedback symbol is a yellow triangle. Hover your mouse over the triangle to see the feedback.
You may not be familiar with MyBib
You can create different folders
Has a browser extension
Generates in-text citations
Can share your folder with teacher (label folder with your name)
Alphabetizes and formats Work Cited
Doesn’t have an AI form but can create custom citations
Tells you when you have potential errors in your citations
No notecard or outline functionality
Can import citations using a URL
Provides feedback on how to improve your citations. Feedback symbol is a yellow rectangle. Hover your mouse over the rectangle to see the feedback.
Half using MyBib - copying citations using the extension and pasting directly into a student document - problem with this - now you have to alphabetize and format your own Work Cited and you can't easily update/change the full citations if they are incorrect
DO NOT COPY AND PASTE MYBIB citations into a working document, instead “Save to Project”
Not having a folder or account set up - disorganized and can lose all your work
Not setting up MyBib or NoodleTools with the correct settings.
1. Consistently misses author field. You must look for the author (first name, last name OR organization/group name) and add this to your citation yourself.
MyBib does often tell you with a note in yellow if you should double check your citation for missing information. See image below.
2. Consistently captures incorrect website name. The website name must be formally written and MyBib often captures the name as a URL. You must correct this error yourself within the citation.
After learning about NoodleTools and MyBib functions, select NoodleTools or MyBib citation builder for use in Y11, Y12, and Y13 based on best fit.
Following the instructions below for setting up NoodleTools or MyBib depending on your choice for citation builder.
Watch the video to learn how to set up the required Project Folder settings in NoodleTools.
Your teacher may ask you to label your project folder Last name, First name or First name, Last name. Please follow your teachers isntructions on how the NoodleTools Project Folders should be titled.
Below are the settings discussed in the video that are required for Y9 NoodleTool Project Folders.
1. Create an account - link to your Google account and use Google Single Sign-on
2. Update the citation style for your folder to MLA 9.
3. Update the citation style for the extension to MLA 9.
JSTOR
If you would like to cite a scholarly journal on JSTOR using NoodleTools, follow the instructions in this short video:
EBSCO
If you would like to cite a source on EBSCO using NoodleTools, follow the instructions in this short video:
Gale
If you would like to cite a source on Gale using NoodleTools, follow the instructions in this short video:
Manually adding a scholarly journal article in NoodleTools
*If you copy and paste a preformatted citation into NoodleTools, NoodeTools cannot auto generate the correct in-text citation. Therefore, when adding full citations to NoodleTools its advised to either import from JSTOR, Gale, or EBSCO OR manually add a source using the correct NoodleTools form. See how to do this below.
1. Add by extension
a. Download the Chrome browser extension for MyBib
b. Find the source you want using a web browser
c. Click the MyBib Extension
d. MyBib autogenerates a citation. Example:
d. Click "Save to Project" - do not 'copy' the citation into your working document. Why? You need to save all your citations for your project in a MyBib folder so that MyBib can arrange the sources in alphabetical order and properly format your list of citations to create an accurate Work Cited. If you only copy the citation you will then be responsible for formatting and alphabetising your Work Cited.
e. Make any necessary corrections. For scholarly articles, MyBib does not always accurately capture the author names, the name of the scholarly journal, the journal volume and issue. See example:
Correct citation:
Cho, Sookja. “Transformation and Deification: Butterflies, Souls, and Cross-Cultural Incarnations.” Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea, University of Michigan Press, 2018, pp. 143–78. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt22727dr.8. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
2. Add by URL
a. Click 'Add citation' 
b. Select 'Journal' and paste your source's URL. Click 'Search'
c. Find the correct source and click the source. Before you can add the source to your MyBib folder, MyBib may ask you to verify information or to try to find missing information such as author name. MyBib offers a credibility rating for your source - take a look!
Example of MyBib asking you to fill out missing information:
3. Add by PDF
a. Click 'Add citation'
b. Select 'Journal' and drag the source PDF into the box. Click 'Search'
c. Click the source. Before you can add the source to your MyBib folder, MyBib may ask you to verify information or to try to find missing information such as author name. MyBib offers a credibility rating for your source - take a look!
Example of MyBib asking you to fill out missing information:
4. Add by Import
a. The site you are using may offer a RIS file or BibTeX file.
JSTOR offers these two file types by clicking 'Cite':
b. Download the file.
c. On MyBib, click 'Import'.
d. Upload the correct file. Before you can add the source to your MyBib folder, MyBib may ask you to verify information or to try to find missing information such as author name. MyBib offers a credibility rating for your source - take a look!
Note: Gale and EBSCO offer RIS file format downloads
5. Add a citation manually
a. Click 'Add citation' and select 'Journal'
b. Click 'Enter manually' 
c. Fill out the form fields to the best of your ability.
Can I use footnotes? No.
Footnotes are not advised for any year level in preparation for IB requirements. IB discourages the use of footnotes. Footnotes, if used incorrectly, are calculated as part of the word count.
Use the following guides to help you with various complex in-text citations scenarios:
A source has two authors:
A source has 3 or more authors:
Using the same source multiple times:
Citing multiple sources in the same sentence/paragraph:
Citing different sources by the same author: 
What if you are an IB student citing a Figure that you have made yourself?
If you are submitting documents to the IB, your EE should have NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. Your name should NOT be on the document.
Here is how you cite yourself without using your name for Figures:
Example:
Figure 1. Chart of Books that make me laugh. 6 July 2024. Google Sheets.
No full citation needed.
"If the photograph is not publicly accessible, you might choose to reproduce it in your paper. In this instance there is no need to credit yourself as the author of the [figure]. Unless otherwise indicated, the reader should assume that you are the author of the images included in your paper. Since the caption provides sufficient information, no works-cited-list entry is needed."
MLA - How do I credit myself as the author?
Here is how you cite yourself without using your name for Tables:
Example:
Table 1
Data collected by drone on October 24, 2024 on Hong Kong Island
| Windspeed | Groundspeed |
| 10 | 4 |
| 50 | 8 |
No full citation needed.
"If the photograph is not publicly accessible, you might choose to reproduce it in your paper. In this instance there is no need to credit yourself as the author of the [figure]. Unless otherwise indicated, the reader should assume that you are the author of the images included in your paper. Since the caption provides sufficient information, no works-cited-list entry is needed."
Y11
The student has selected NoodleTools or MyBib for all citation work based on best fit.
The student understands "What is a scholarly source?"
The student can cite scholarly journal articles in NoodleTools or MyBib.
The student understands the Footnotes Guideline at CIS.
The student can use complex in-text citations.
The student can cite their own work (especially relevant for TOK).
Student should continue to demonstrate the skills expected by end of Year 7-10
Y7
The student can create a full citation and in-text citation in NoodleTools.
The student can create a Works Cited in NoodleTools.
The student can create a full citation and in-text citation for an AI tool they may have used.
The student can use in-text citations within their writing or presentation and have provided a Work Cited for relevant assessments.
The student can effectively use signal phrases to introduce sources they are using within a piece of work.
Y8
The student can format a piece of writing in MLA style.
The student can create in-text citations with page numbers and timestamps/time ranges in NoodleTools.
The student can use Turnitin to receive feedback on citations
The student can use the Pineapple Bun Structure for a paragraph with evidence (quote or paraphrase).
Y9
The student can format and cite Figures and Tables using MLA style
The student can cite sources in world languages.
Y10
The student can cite scholarly journal articles in NoodleTools.
The student understands the Footnotes Guideline at CIS.
The student can use a complex in-text citation: sources with more than one author.
The student can use a complex in-text citation: multiple sources with the same author's last name.
The student can cite multiple sources in a sentence.
