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Bibliographic Management at CUK: Mendeley

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What is Mendeley?

"Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research." (http://www.mendeley.com/)  It is an original in using crowd-sourcing technique to build a knowledge base of citations by letting each user create his/her own database of references.  Device agostic if a device can download the desktop software and/or use the internet to open the database online.  Synching between device and web is a key to the resource's effectiveness.

Uses:

  • Build your own bibliographic database.
  • Organize your PDFs.
  • Insert citations from Mendeley into word processor.
  • Share research with others – references; papers; your comments/notes about papers.
  • Use both Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web.

Quick Video Tutorial

Microsoft Word Plug-In

Mendeley Tools menu > Install MS Word Plug In [follow instructions]. 

After installation -

  1. In Word, put cursor at place in text where you want the citation.
  2. In Word’s ribbon, go to References tab and that displays Mendeley within Word.
  3. At the Mendeley panel in Word References tab display, click Insert Citation.  Search “My Library.” Or can Go To Mendeley to select citation. Search, Select, and click OK.
  4. To generate the full references at the end of your paper, click in document where you want the bibliography.  Click within Mendeley tab – Insert Bibliography.
  5. To change journal style. Highlight references in your Bibliography.  Click in Mendeley tab> and then to the Styles pull down menu.
  6. To add more styles into pull down menu - More Styles > Get More Styles > Install.

Account/Download/Setup

  • http://www.mendeley.com to Download Desktop version.
  • Will see three columns: 1st navigation/recently added/groups; 2nd list of references; 3rd details of one selected reference.
  • http://www.mendeley.com Sign In tab to log into the Web version.
  • Sync the two versions of Mendeley > In Desktop Tools toolbar, click Sync Library.
  • Two other installations to do, from Tools menu. 
  • Install Web Importer; Install Plug-In for Microsoft Word.