MENDELEY

Workshop:
ORGANIZING REFERENCES
USING MENDELEY
www.mendeley.com
Izwan Nizal Mohd Shaharanee
School of Quantitative Sciences
nizal@uum.edu.my

Pusat Pengajaran Pembelajaran Universiti (UTLC)

Universiti Utara Malaysia
06010 UUM Sintok
Kedah Darul Aman
Tel.:604-928 4697 |4707|4703|4703|4690|4696
E-Mail:utlc@uum.edu.my
Website : www.utlc.uum.edu.my

http://pollev.com/izwannizal

PART 1

What is Mendeley
Desktop Version
Overview
Creating Library
Add Files/Folder
Import/Export Citation
Web Importer

WHAT IS MENDELEY (MENDELEY.COM)

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social
network that can help you organize your research, collaborate
with others online, and discover the latest research.

WHAT IS MENDELEY (MENDELEY.COM)

Automatically generate bibliographies

Collaborate easily with other researchers online
Easily import papers from other research software
Find relevant papers based on what youre reading
Access your papers from anywhere online
Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app

SIGN UP AND DOWNLOAD

Click for Signup

Click for Signup

Username/email

password

Download Mendeley
software

Registered user

CREATING/EDITING
PROFILE

Click to view/edit
profile

DOWNLOAD

DOWNLOAD

DESKTOP VERSION

DESKTOP VERSION
Tools > Options

MENDELEYS FILE ORGANIZER

Tools>>Options

DESKTOP VERSION

Where your file physically

Tools > Options

Naming format

OVERVIEW CREATING LIBRARY

Library showing all your
documents

Setup and manage your reference

group

ADDING PAPER
Different options to setup library
-Add single or entire folder

Mendeley will try to extract the document details

automatically

ADDING FILES, FOLDER AND WATCH

FOLDER
Open the IzwanMendeleyExample Folder
Adding Files
File >> Add Files [ Browse the specific files]
Adding Folder
File >> Add Folder [ The whole pdf files will be added]
Watch Folder

ADDING FILES, FOLDER AND WATCH

FOLDER
Watch Folder
Watch Folder on Dropbox
Tick folder to watch

DOCUMENTS DETAILS
Documents details

IMPORT CITATIONS
You can also:
Add existing EndNote/BibTex/RIS databases

IMPORT CITATIONS
Open GoogleScholar
Search any article[ Example : izwan nizal]
Export Citation

Pdf file

IMPORT CITATIONS
RIS format >> Export

Click Export Citation

(1)Citation
downloaded

(2)Citation downloaded into

specific folder

IMPORT CITATIONS
File>>Import>>RIS

(3)

(1)

(2)

(4)
(4)

WEB IMPORTER
Export directly from Scopus and Science Direct

TOOLS > INSTALL WEB IMPORTER

Click and Drag to your
Bookmarks Bar

WEB IMPORTER
Click Save to Mendeley

Click Save To Mendeley

WEB IMPORTER
A list of articles found

Save all @ select the

related article

PART 2

Citing Reference/Generating Bibliographies

Merging Citation
Citation Style
Managing Documents and References
Manage Library
Searching Documents
Literature Search
Mendeley Suggest

CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Tools>> Install MS Word Plugin (Mendeley Desktop)

Open the Microsoft Word [ExampleIntroduction.doc]
References >> Insert Citations [Mendeley]

(2)Insert citation

(1)Put your cursor

where the citation
needed

(3) Go to Mendeley

CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Highlight the paper/s you want to

cite

CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Click Cite

MERGING CITATIONS

Merge Citations

CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Put your cursor at the end of the documents
Insert >> Page Break

References (Mendeley) >> Insert Bibliography

Insert bibliography

CHANGING STYLES
Styles

References (Mendeley) >> Styles

INSERT NEW STYLES

Download the new styles
Step 1:
Save the new styles into CitationStyles1.0 Folder
Computer >> System (C) >> Program File >> Mendeley
Desktop>> CitationStyles -1.0

Step 2:
Open Mendeley:
View >> Citation Style >> More Style >> [New Styles] >> Use
this style >> Done

Step 3:
Open MSWord
Insert Citation >> [New Styles]

INSERT NEW STYLES

Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0puxokjwuxjy0u/GayaUKM.csl
UKM Style

MANAGING DOCUMENTS AND

REFERENCES
Open attached
PDF files

Marked article/Stared
favourite paper

SEARCHING DOCUMENTS

Filtering article

Searching article in
library

Any suitable
keywords

Online searching

LITERATURE SEARCH

LITERATURE SEARCH

Number of Articles

ADVANCE SEARCH BOOLEAN OPERATOR

http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/articles
/227955
Operator:
AND, OR, , year, author ect

http://blog.mendeley.com/progress-update/new-release-literature-search-from-within-mendeleydeskop/

ADDITIONAL NOTES
Searching Related Documents
Searching related
documents

Results

Save references

SEARCHING

PART 3

Notes, Annotate and Highlight

Web Version
Synchronize and Manage Library Online
Sharing and Collaboration
Creating Groups
Mendeley iPad

NOTES, ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT

Searching for idea, copy and paste into own
documents
Click Highlight

Paste here

Copy

NOTES, ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT

Adding notes

Adding notes

Adding Annotation

Web Version

IPhone

Synchronize and Manage Library

Online
Edit and Manage
Library Online

SHARING AND COLLABORATION

Creating a group and sharing documents

Public vs Private
Group

MENDELEY FOR IPAD

Thank You
nizal@uum.edu.my
izwan.nizal@gmail.com

MendeleyCircle@UUM

Pusat Pengajaran Pembelajaran Universiti (UTLC)

Universiti Utara Malaysia
06010 UUM Sintok
Kedah Darul Aman
Tel.:604-928 4697 |4707|4703|4703|4690|4696
E-Mail:utlc@uum.edu.my
Website : www.utlc.uum.edu.my