Mendeley for Citation Management

INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC WRITING

Citation Management

Citation management is crucial for maintaining integrity and credibility by crediting original authors and avoiding plagiarism.

Tools like EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley help organize and cite sources efficiently, saving time and ensuring consistent formatting.

What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references.

Software Cite Tool

FIVE REASON TO USE ZOTERO

  • Reference Management
  • Collaboration
  • Citation Generation
  • PDF Annotation
  • Multiple Devices
  • Support MS Word 2016 or above, MS Office 365 and the app for iPad®

Quick Guide: APA Citation Format

Installation

Step 1: Install the software on your computer (Software Download + Cite Tool)
Step 2: Start to use

Sync Your Device

Mendeley support various devices to use the same account and share the literatures.

How to sync?
Create your Mendeley Account with your USJ Email (Recommend)

Build your library

Import references using a variety of methods:

  • Drag and drop PDFs from your computer
  • Import files from your computer
  • Manually create an entry

Use in MS word (Google Doc user see Zotero)

Use the Mendeley Cite add-in for Microsoft Word to generate citations and bibliographies:

  • Find and insert individual or multiple references, and generate a bibliography of all the references you’ve cited
  • Edit a reference in a citation
  • Choose your preferred citation style by selecting from 1000s of different citation styles
  • Refresh references to update them with any changes made to your library
  • Use Mendeley Cite without Mendeley Reference Manager being open or installed

Frequently
Asked
Questions

YOU CAN RESERVE A TIME TO MEET THE LIBRARIAN FOR ANY TECHNICAL OR RESEARCH QUESTION

Reserve a Time

No. You can access on your computer without registration. But the registration will give you a cloud backup for all the references and multiple access to different computers.

USJ email is recommend to easily connect to Elsevier database (e.g. Scopus)

You can drop or upload the PDF to Mendeley.

Share documents and references with small teams. You have to be invited to these groups and they allow you to share PDFs and collaborate using shared annotations.