Mendeley is an academic application that can be used as a reference manager, research organizer, and academic social network. It allows users to install the software, create an account, add research papers and documents to their library, and synchronize their library across devices. Mendeley offers features like literature searching, citation and bibliography plugins for Microsoft Word, and different citation styles. It helps users manage their research and connect with over six million other researchers worldwide.

1. MENDELEY SOFTWARE FOR
BEGINNERS
HAFIZ.M.ZEESHAN.RAZA
CIIT/FA-17/RBS-002/SWL
hafizraza26@gmail.com
COMSATS University SWL

2. Introduction
Mendeley is an academic application used as:
 An academic social network
 Reference manager
 Manage your research
 Showcase your work
 Connect and collaborate with over six million
researchers worldwide

3. How to Install
 It is available on https://www.mendeley.com
for Windows base, Mac OS base and Linux
base systems. Download and Install it.

4. Continue…
 After installation, open it as shown below:
 Click on Register for making “MENDELEY” ID.
 Online make an account & remember password.

5. Continue…
 After successful installation & creating account,
MENDELEY will be open in such a way.
 Click on highlighted bars to add your research papers.

6. Continue…
 Your all papers will show in this manner.
 Connect with Internet and your all papers and
documents will be synchronized and permanently
stored.
 You can make access to your documents any time & any
where.

7. Special Features
 Literature search
 MENDELEY suggests
 Citations
 Plug in to MS word
 Web importer
 Make your library by different folders
 Add references in world wide journal’s styles

8. Literature search
 Click on Literature
search tab and write
your topic.
 All related papers and
books will be here.
 Download and read
them.

9. Manage your Documents
 MENDELEY provides the
facility to organize your data by;
 Making different folders
 Making Groups
 Adding Folders
 Making your favorites

10. MENDELEY suggests
 You can get many recent papers and review articles by
click on “Mendeley suggest” tab.
 You can also connect with different scientists and
researchers of your field on this tab.

11. Click on Tools and Install MS Word
Plugin

12. Citation and Bibliography
 After successful installation
of MS Word Plugin to
MENDELEY, you will be
able to make bibliography
as well as citation or add
references in your
research work.
 Now open your word
documents and start
MENDELEY.
 Watch this video…

13. Styles of citation and
References
 Each journal or publisher follows his own
specific style or format of references adding or
citations.
 Sometime the institute or university also
recommend a specific style for citations.
 So, MENDLEY also provide us the facility to
adopt any kind of citation style.

14. Click on Tools and Install Web Importer

15. Continue…
 You must be login @ MENDELEY with your
ID.
 Then add extension of MENDELEY on your
browser.
 Open any research paper on its official site.
 Click on extension and paper will be saved in
your MENDELY.
 Watch this video…….

16. Academic Social Media
 MENDELEY is also a most popular social
media for researchers, scientists and students.
 You can make contacts with different people of
relative research fields.