MANAGING & CITING YOUR SOURCES USING MENDELEY...

MANAGING & CITING YOUR

SOURCES USING MENDELEY

(www.mendeley.com)

Library Service & Information Unit | Perkhidmatan Perpustakaan & MaklumatUNISEL Library | Perpustakaan UNISEL

1. Mendeley Desktop: A software that organises PDFs, create references and helps you write papers.

2. Mendeley Web: A research catalogue of 350M documents from 2M researchers, 100Kcollaborative groups.

3. Mendeley Importer: Create your library while surfing the web. Import of references from various websites.

4. MS Word Plugin: Writing & citing your research in MS Word made easy via mendeley

MENDELEY COMPONENTS

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Setting Up Your Mendeley Library

Step 1: http://www.mendeley.com/download-desktop/

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Signing up

Step 2: Download Mendeley Desktop

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Signing up

Step 3: Build your library

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Your Desktop Library

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Manage your library

Create category folders

Documents can be marked read/unread

Star your favourite papers

Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer

View what type of document attached (pdf, pptx, docx, xls, etc.)

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Adding Documents

Click at the Import Additional Doc icon

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Document Details Lookup

If you need to amend the details of a selected paper, click into the appropriate field Mendeley’s document details panel and apply the required changes.

Mendeley adds missing information automatically.

For more information, kindly refer to the APA Formatting and Style Guide Manual by UNISEL Library.

IMPORTANT: Whenever you add a new reference to your library, it is highly recommended that your review its details for accuracy.

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Adding References Manually

Click File Add Entry Manually

1. Tools Install Web Importer

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Web Importer

2 (a). Installation for Chrome

2 (b). For IE, drag the ‘Save to Mendeley’ button to your Bookmarks Bar

3. Search for articles. 4. Click the ‘Save to Mendeley’ bookmark or

‘Import to Mendeley’ icon.

5. Review the

details and Save

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Web Importer1. Click ‘Save to Mendeley’ bookmark OR ‘Import to Mendeley’ icon

to import references from your search results.

2. Select an article and import the references to your library in one click. Mendeley will also save

the PDF, if available.

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Sync

• Mendeley backs up your library online.

• Your Mendeleylibrary data will be securely stored on the Mendeleyservers so you can access it on any machine anywhere you go.

• Add new references to your library in Mendeley Web.

SYNC your library to access it anywhere & read across devices

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Managing your library

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Mendeley’s File Organiser

Moves files from wherever they are imported to a designated Mendeley directory on your hard drive.

Tools

Options

File organizer

Organize my files

Browse

New Folder

Apply

OK

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Manage your library

Filters by Authors, Tags, Publications or Keywords

Free text search or limit by title, author, years, notes, etc.

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Annotate + Highlight your papers

MENDELEY CITE-O-MATIC

Citation Plug-In

CITATION PLUG-IN:

Installation

The tool bar appears in Word automatically

CITATION PLUG-IN:

Generate In-Text Citations in Word

1. Click ‘Insert Citation’

2. Search by author, title or year or select manually from your Mendeley library

3. Select the article or book and click ‘Cite’ to automatically cite that text in Word.

CITATION PLUG-IN:

Inserting Your Bibliography

1. Click ‘Insert Bibliography’

2. Choose your style

3. Done!

DISCOVER

New research, Recommendations + Impact

DISCOVER: Literature search in Mendeley Desktop

Find new research easily. If full text is

available, you’ll see a download icon

Search the Mendeleycatalogue

Save new research to your library with one click

HERE TO HELP

NUR ADNA BINTI RODUANLibrarian

03-32808051 nur_adna@unisel.edu.my

HAFIZ B. ABDUL RAHIMSenior Librarian

03-55223565 hafiz_ar@unisel.edu.my

ZAIRIL AZWAN B. OSMANLibrarian

03-32805085 zairil@unisel.edu.my

BESTARI JAYA CAMPUS

SHAH ALAM CAMPUS

Perpustakaan Universiti Selangor or UNISEL Library

library.unisel.edu.my

KHUZAIMAH BT. ZAKARIALibrarian

03-55223566 khuzaimah@unisel.edu.my