Chicago 16th edition updates are in place for the second semester, as many of you have noticed. Previously, NoodleBib formatting was based on Turabian 7th edition. Turabian has not yet released an update to sync up with CMOS 16th edition changes. Some of the more noticeable changes include:

• When an access date is included as part of a citation to an online source, it is placed before the URL (or DOI).
• Database name and accession number can be cited, if there is no DOI and no stable/direct URL to the content.
• Legal citations follow Bluebook formatting.
• Blog citation formatting changes.

There is a Google Docs API issue which is causing a problem with creating new documents from NoodleBib.

The Google API team has indicated that they are working on a fix:
http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2369
http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2383

It seems to only be affecting Google Apps for Education accounts. In NoodleBib, this issue manifests itself as an error message “Expected response code 200, got 400: Could not convert document.”

We will monitor this and try to obtain more information from the Google API team. Thank you for your patience

UPDATE: Google has reported this fixed as of today (2/2/2011).