How to use Mendeley Citation Manager
And make your citation citing and reference managing faster, easier and more efficient
Karmen adds citations
• To the document on her hard drive
• From the Reference Paper group on Mendeley Web via her Mendeley Desktop
Karmen adds citations
• To the document on her hard drive
• From the Reference Paper group on Mendeley Web via her Mendeley Desktop
• Finds each citation she wants to add
Karmen adds citations
• To the document on her hard drive
• From the Reference Paper group on Mendeley Web via her Mendeley Desktop
• Finds each citation she wants to add
• Adds them to the document
Inserted from the Web onto the Desktop.
Karmen adds citations
• To the document on her hard drive
• From the Reference Paper group on Mendeley Web via her Mendeley Desktop
• Finds each citation she wants to add
• Adds them to the document
• Adds multiple cites at the same time
Karmen adds citations
• To the document on her hard drive
• From the Reference Paper group on Mendeley Web via her Mendeley Desktop
• Finds each citation she wants to add
• Adds them to the document
• Adds multiple cites at the same time
• And here they are in the text and References
Editing messed up citations
It happens. It’s easily fixable.
The problem with this NIH style reference
• “Information G, Cell AN‐small, Cancer L. Health Professional Version. Lung Cancer 2011;1‐71.” – No authors
The problem with this NIH style reference
• “Information G, Cell AN‐small, Cancer L. Health Professional Version. Lung Cancer 2011;1‐71.” – No authors
– No title
The problem with this NIH style reference
• “Information G, Cell AN‐small, Cancer L. Health Professional Version. Lung Cancer 2011;1‐71.” – No authors
– No title
– No journal volume number
The problem with this NIH style reference
• “Information G, Cell AN‐small, Cancer L. Health Professional Version. Lung Cancer 2011;1‐71.” – No authors
– No title
– No journal volume number
– No URL
The problem with this NIH style reference
• “Information G, Cell AN‐small, Cancer L. Health Professional Version. Lung Cancer 2011;1‐71.” – No authors
– No title
– No journal volume number
– No URL
– Something else I’m not seeing right now
– Overall not good, what can be done?
Here’s where you can see what’s wrong with the Citation
at a glance, more or less
on Mendeley Desktop
Many missing
things
What I would do
• Go to Mendeley Web and click on the red “?”
What I would do
• Go to Mendeley Web and click on the red “?”
• Can’t tell what’s wrong from that, so I open the document
What I would do
• Go to Mendeley Web and click on the red “?”
• Can’t tell what’s wrong from that, so I open the document
• Oh no! Not a simple journal article. Here’s how I edit it on Mendeley Web
What I would do
• Go to Mendeley Web and click on the red “?”
• Can’t tell what’s wrong from that, so I open the document
• Oh no! Not a simple journal article. Here’s how I edit it on Mendeley Web
• And now I click Save and this is how it looks on Mendeley Web
Getting it to the Desktop
• I synch my Web with my with my Desktop
See? Still messed up on
the Desktop Mendeley
No longer messed up on
the Mendeley Desktop Getting it to the Desktop
• I synch my Web with my with my Desktop
• Refresh my Reference Paper
Before Refresh
After Refresh
Getting it to the Desktop
• I synch my Web with my with my Desktop
• Refresh my Reference Paper
• And with one click, it’s all fixed forever
Getting it to the Desktop
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I synch my Web with my with my Desktop
Refresh my Reference Paper
And with one click, it’s all fixed forever
Not to mention that you’re a big hero
Getting it to the Desktop
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I synch my Web with my with my Desktop
Refresh my Reference Paper
And with one click, it’s all fixed forever
Not to mention that you’re a big hero
With the other members of the Group
Getting it to the Desktop
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I synch my Web with my with my Desktop
Refresh my Reference Paper
And with one click, it’s all fixed forever
Not to mention that you’re a big hero
With the other members of the Group
Because you fixed the cite on the web Group
Getting it to the Desktop
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I synch my Web with my with my Desktop
Refresh my Reference Paper
And with one click, it’s all fixed forever
Not to mention that you’re a big hero
With the other members of the Group
Because you fixed the cite on the web Group
For everyone. Better than Facebook.
The value of collaborating on references in Mendeley
• Documents can be sent back and forth The value of collaborating on references in Mendeley
• Documents can be sent back and forth • Around and among editors
The value of collaborating on references in Mendeley
• Documents can be sent back and forth • Around and among editors
• But they still use the same pool of citations
The value of collaborating on references in Mendeley
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Documents can be sent back and forth Around and among editors
But they still use the same pool of citations
And easy formatting features
The value of collaborating on references in Mendeley
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Documents can be sent back and forth Around and among editors
But they still use the same pool of citations
And easy formatting features
Due to the synching feature The value of collaborating on references in Mendeley
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Documents can be sent back and forth Around and among editors
But they still use the same pool of citations
And easy formatting features
Due to the synching feature Between Desktop Mendeley and The value of collaborating on references in Mendeley
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Documents can be sent back and forth Around and among editors
But they still use the same pool of citations
And easy formatting features
Due to the synching feature Between Desktop Mendeley and Web Mendeley
The value of collaborating on references in Mendeley
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Documents can be sent back and forth Around and among editors
But they still use the same pool of citations
And easy formatting features
Due to the synching feature Between Desktop Mendeley and Web Mendeley
Yay!