Mendeley: Home

The Mendeley Interface

• The Mendeley Interface
• Medenley Web Importer
• Literature Search

Inputting Citations

• Insert Citations into Mendeley Library from 1-Search
• Migrating Citations from other Reference Management Tools
• Manually Input Citations to Mendeley Library
• Watch Folder

Managing Citations

• Organise the Citations into Different Folders
• Manage your Citations with Tags
• Adding Notes and Attachments
• Select your comfortable viewing way
• Backup and Sychronise the Citations

Plug-in in Microsoft Word

• Mendeley Plug-in in Microsoft Word
• Insert In-text Citations in Microsoft Word

Exporting Citations & Bibliography

• Export Citations to a BibTeX File
• Export the Citations to a Bibliography

• Bibliography and Plagiarism 
• RefWorks Guide

Mendeley is a free citation management tool for you to efficiently organise and share your citation and bibliography list. 
 

Preparation:

1. Install Mendeley

Download the Medenley to your own PC at: http://www.mendeley.com/download-desktop-new/ . To install 2 components of the program:

• Mendeley Software
• Web Importer

2. Register to the Mendeley personal account:

The use of the online account is to sync your Mendeley Library to the cloud and between computers. It also allows you to share of references with other accounts.

Mendeley app

To easily mange your Mendeley Library and citations anytime and anywhere, please visit https://www.mendeley.com/download-desktop-new/ to download the Mendeley app for your mobile devices. 

Here is explanation of different parts of the interface.

To quickly and easily add the citation to Mendeley, you are advised to install the "Mendeley Web Importer".

The Web Importer is an add-on to your web browsers. With it, you can easily save the citation of any article and webpage to your Mendeley Library when you are browsing any website or discovery tool for your research.

Here below is an example:

You can conduct a search for literature through Mendeley Desktop platform.

With this function, you can search for articles you need, view the details of the articles and directly save the articles into your Mendeley Library.