How To Use Mendeley 101:
Desktop, Web Importer & The MS Word Plugin.
If you’re still fumbling about trying to manage citations and references manually (or with Word’s terrible reference manager), please stop now. In this video, we’ll show you how to use Mendeley to optimise your citation management and referencing. Invest 10 minutes learning how to use Mendeley and you’ll never struggle with reference management again.
What We Cover In This Video
Mendeley Installation & setup:
We walk you through the basics of downloading, installing and getting Mendeley set up on your computer.
- How to install Mendeley Desktop
- How to install Mendeley Web Importer
- How to install the Mendeley MS Word Plugin
Reference building using Mendeley:
We show you how to add your existing literature to Mendeley so that its ready for use in your documents.
- How to populate your database Mendeley using PDF drag & drop
- How to use Mendeley’s literature search functionality
- How to use Mendeley’s Web Importer to grab data off web pages.
- How to manually enter references into Mendeley
Inserting citations & creating a reference list in Word:
We show you how Mendeley functions within Microsoft Word, and how to get the most out of it.
- How to change the reference style in Word
- How to add new reference styles in Word
- How to insert citations in Word
- How to edit citations to give the author the leading voice
- How to create a reference list/bibliography
Have a question about how to use Mendeley?
If you have any further questions about how to use Mendeley, you’re welcome to leave a comment below. We’re not Mendeley experts, but we’ll do our best to help if we can.
I am impressed with Mendeley’s offering.
Awesome! Thank you! Definitely won’t be manually entering each reference anymore for my MSc thesis!
Pleasure, Gitte!
I want to download literature review Excel
Thank very much Derek . You have greatly helped me. God bless you indeed. Thanks
You’re welcome 🙂
All thanks and appreciation to you
Thank you so much for all this invaluable GradCoach info, all the articles are on point it will make our live much easier.
Thank you Derek. Information you shared was helpful.
Great explanation – thank you!
Is it possible to change the referencing style at the end of write-up? If so, how does one do this.
Thanks again
RE: your video: Good short & to the point. I’ve ADHD & get bored within litterally seconds if the person presenting hasn’t got on with the point. This is key to ADHD people so will recommend you to others.
RE: my question: Does Medeley allow you split the reference docs into sections for the different areas of research I’m doing eg fungi, soil, bacteria, viruses etc?
Thanks in advance
Thank you! Helped with my bachelor
Hello, could you please tell me how to generate the code for “&” in the field “Citation”. For example: the code in the field “citation” is “CITATION Haw15 \l 1029 ” for “(Hawkins, a další, 2015)”. I need the citation in the form “Hawkins & Byrne 2015”
Thanks Derek for all the coaching. It’s a huge help for the literature review I’m doing. Tried to follow the steps from your video but the literature search function is not showing on my mendeley desktop. Did I miss a step in downloading it? I was able to download the reference manager and it was fine but I am a bit stuck with the mendeley desktop? Is there a separate video that shows the steps how to download the mendeley desktop?
I followed your video, however, what version of Mendeley has a Literature search, I cant find it in the Mendeley I installed.
Good day Derek.
I’m a PhD student and have just listened to your videos, which are awesome! Thank you so much.
I am also a Mendeley fan. However, I find it limiting in some aspects. Do you have any knowledge about how to use Mendeley with cloud storage and also using a cloud-based “Watch folder”?
Thank you in advance.
I just want to say thanks so much. I had this software recommended to me from Uni and once I had downloaded it all I didn’t understand how it worked. After your video I now totally get it and this is going to make life so much easier. So thanks again.
how to put website citation and reference
How I should recover the icons missed from the taskbar, it’s already installed. now Mendeley is not visible