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MENDELEY TUTORIAL

How to manage your scientific bibliography

Important Note : there are two versions of Mendeley with close names :
1/Mendeley Desktop and 2/Mendeley Reference Manager Desktop
Please use Mendeley Desktop. Dowload it here

Overview of the Mendeley library

Your library of articles in Mendeley is just a list of documents. Each item contains all the details of the articles : Title, Authors, Date... (Video 1) :

Adding an article to your library

Using the internal Mendeley online search engine (Video 2)
Using Pubmed with the Mendeley web plugin (Video 3)
Directly from the PDF of an article (Video 4)
You can set up Mendeley to scan a folder on your computer, and Mendeley will every PDF you save in it. (Video5)
Always check and correct when importing a PDF file that the reference is well imported. (Video 6)

Styles

Each journal has its own style for citations and references.
Reminder (Video 7):
- A citation is the marker inside a text, for example :
  [1] or (Smith, 2002)
- A reference is the text contained in the bibliography at the end of a document, for example :
  1. Smith, Wesson. Title of the Article. Jan, 2002. Vol.1, p 45.
Mendeley can be used with Word. For this you need to install the Word Plugin (Video 8)
You can add your citations inside Word. (Video 9)
You can easily change style within the Mendeley section. It will modify the style of both the citations and the reference (Video 10)

Video tutorials

1 - Overview of Mendeley

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1 - Overview of Mendeley

Your library of articles in Mendeley is just a list of documents. Each item contains (video) : • The title of the article • The name of the authors of the article • The name of the Journal in which the article was published • The page and volume number • The abstract • Tags and keywords if you have entered them • The date of publication • The URL link and quick IDs to the original article • If you have the file on your computer, there is a link to the PDF file

2. Internal search Engine

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2. Internal search Engine

Add an article to your library by using the internal Mendeley Online Search Engine

3. Installing the Mendeley Web Importer

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3. Installing the Mendeley Web Importer

Add a plugin to your browser (Firefox, Chrome..) in order to be able to easily import your references from the browser.

4. Add a reference from a PDF file

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4. Add a reference from a PDF file

Once you have saved your PDF file on your computer, you can manually add it with Mendeley by using the "Add File" option. The details from the PDF will be extracted and added to your library. A link to your file will also be available.

5. Setting a "watched" folder

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5. Setting a "watched" folder

You can set Mendeley to scan a folder on your computer: every time you will save a PDF in it, it will be added in your library automatically.

6. Verify the imported reference

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6. Verify the imported reference

Always check when importing a PDF file that the reference is well imported. Sometimes there are some mistakes. You can correct them manually or you can import the information directly from a DOI.

7. Examples of citation and reference styles

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7. Examples of citation and reference styles

6. Each journal has its own style for citations and references. For instance Cell uses names and dates for citations, and its references are in alphabetical order. Scientific reports uses numbers in superscript for references, and each article is numbered in this order in the reference section. Current Opinions is a little different and prefers its citations in numbers using brackets and its references in the same order.

8.The Mendeley Word plugin

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8.The Mendeley Word plugin

Mendeley can be used with Word. For this you need to install the Word Plugin, in the Tools section. Once done, a new section will appear in Word in the Reference tab with all the Mendeley functions.

Note

Mendeley is one amongst many other software to manage bibliography. All these programs will more or less have similar functions.
- Zotero, EndNote, Readcube-Papers, JabRef...

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