Workshop on Citation Management Using

MENDELEY

Dr Urmila Itam
Assistant Professor
CMS Business School
JAIN (Deemed to be University)

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 Contents
1. Introduction to Reference Manager
2. Mendeley as Reference Manager
3. Setting up a library
4. Managing library
5. Citation Plugin
6. Forming and Interacting with groups
7. Tips to avoid Plagiarism

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 Reference Manager

Why we need a reference manager?

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 Mendeley

 Free Academic Software

 Cross-Platform (Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile)
Desktop  All Major Browsers

Web

Mobile

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How does it help us?

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Overview:
Using Mendeley

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Getting Started!! Web Version

• Go to
www.mendeley.com and
click on “Create
account”.
• It is recommended that
you use your personal
email so that your
research is portable
when you leave the
university.
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Desktop Version

– Go to
www.mendeley.com
and click on “Sign In
and download
Mendeley reference
manager for
desktop”.

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Working with Desktop Version

Adding PDFs –
To add a pdf
document to
Mendeley Desktop
click on “Add files”

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Organize:
Setting Up A Library

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 Adding Material

Select a file or folder to Import from another reference

add from your computer manager, or BibTeX

Watch a folder

Add reference by
manually entering
details

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 Finding New Search
Mendeley Web Importer Mendeley Research Catalog

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Mendeley Web Importer

Edge

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Sync with Mendeley
• Whenever you add PDFs to your
library, don’t forget to synchronise
it.
• Clicking on the “Sync” button
uploads all your articles to the
Mendeley Web version.
• If you use Mendeley on a different
computer or if you use the app,
synchronising makes sure that you
always have the most recent
version of your library from
wherever you access it.
• Any annotations you made will
also be uploaded.

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Organize:
Managing Your Library

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 Managing Library -

Use column
headings
All items in to order your
your personal references
library
Items added Mark entries
in the last two read or unread
weeks
Entries with
Access your
attached PDFs
recently read
can be opened
items
with the PDF
All items you’ve Reader
starred in your
library

Items in need Star items to

of review mark them as
favorites

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Create and Use Folders

References not added to a folder

will appear in ‘unsorted’

Your folders will be listed below.

Drag and drop to re-order them.

Use ‘Create Folder’ to enter a

new folder name.

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Search Your Saved Documents

Enter your search term

in the search field

The main view will be

filtered accordingly

Click on a specific folder

to search within it

Use the clear button to

remove the search filter

Mendeley’s search tool

will look at reference
metadata, but will also
search within the full text
of PDF papers.

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Search Your Saved Documents

Add tags to papers in your

library which share a common
theme

Use the Filter Menu to filter

your library view to only include
tagged items

You can also filter by Author,

Author Keywords and
Publication

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 Checking for Duplications
Click on Tools

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PDF Viewer
Highlight and Annotate Documents

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Reading and Annotations

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Highlighting and Annotations

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Cite:
Using the Mendeley Citation Plug-In

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Install the Citation Plug-in

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Medeley As Citation Tool

Install the Citation Plug-in

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Medeley As Citation Tool

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Medeley As Citation Tool

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Medeley As Citation Tool

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Collaborate
Join and Create Groups to Share References

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 Mendeley Groups

See the groups

you created, joined
or follow.

Add documents to
a group by
dragging and
dropping.

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 Private Groups
Collaborate with Your Research Team

Share full-text
documents with
members of your
private group

Share highlights
and annotations

Each group member is assigned a different color for highlighting

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Discover
New Research, Recommendations, and Impact

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Search the Web Catalog Online

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Quickly Add New Research

A If the article is freely

available, it’s a one-click
addition to your library

B Or use Get Full Text to

locate the full text

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Get Statistics

Quickly see
readership and
citation index

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 Tips to avoid Plagiarism

• The significance of citing and referencing using Mendeley to avoid

plagiarism are
• (1) confirm, justify, and claim the issue conveyed in scientific work;
• (2) highlight a particular idea;
• (3) criticize or approve the premise of others, and
• (4) build argument.

• https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1238290

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Happy Learning !!!

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