MENDELEY
WORKSHOP: ORGANIZING
REFERENCES USING MENDELEY
www.mendeley.com
izwan nizal mohd shaharanee
school of quantitative sciences
nizal@uum.edu.my

PART 1
What is Mendeley
 Desktop Version
 Overview
 Creating Library
 Add Files/Folder
 Import/Export Citation
 Web Importer
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http://padlet.com/wall/huvv8q8w56

WHAT IS MENDELEY (MENDELEY.COM)
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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)
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Automatically generate bibliographies
Collaborate easily with other researchers online
Easily import papers from other research software
Find relevant papers based on what you’re 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

Click to view/edit
profile
CREATING/EDITING PROFILE

DOWNLOAD

DOWNLOAD

DESKTOP VERSION

DESKTOP VERSION
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Tools > Options

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

DOCUMENTS DETAILS
Documents details

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

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

IMPORT CITATIONS
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RIS format >> Export
Click Export
Citation
(1)Citation
downloaded
(2)Citation downloaded
into specific folder

IMPORT CITATIONS
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File>>Import>>RIS
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(1)
(2)
(4)
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WEB IMPORTER
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TOOLS > INSTALL WEB IMPORTER
Click and Drag to your
Bookmarks Bar

WEB IMPORTER
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Click Save to Mendeley
Click Save To Mendeley

WEB IMPORTER
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A list of articles found
Save all @ select the
related article

MENDELEY’S FILE ORGANIZER
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Tools>>Options

PART 2
Citing Reference/Generating Bibliographies
 Merging Citation
 Citation Style
 Managing Documents and References
 Manage Library
 Searching Documents
 Literature Search
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CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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Tools>> Install MS Word Plugin (Mendeley Desktop)
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Open the Microsoft Word [ExampleIntroduction.doc]
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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
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Put your cursor at the end of the documents
Insert >> Page Break
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References (Mendeley) >> Insert Bibliography
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Insert bibliography

CHANGING STYLES
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References (Mendeley) >> Styles
Styles

INSERT NEW STYLES
Download the new styles
Step 1:
 Save the new styles into CitationStyles1.0 Folder
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Computer >> System (C) >> Program File >> Mendeley
Desktop>> CitationStyles -1.0
Step 2:
 Open Mendeley:
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View >> Citation Style >> More Style >> [New Styles] >>
Use this style >> Done
Step 3:
 Open MSWord
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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 article
in library
SEARCHING DOCUMENTS
Filtering article

Any suitable
keywords
LITERATURE SEARCH
Online searching

LITERATURE SEARCH
Number of Articles

PART 3
Notes, Annotate and Highlight
 Web Version
 Synchronize and Manage Library Online
 Sharing and Collaboration
 Creating Groups
 Mendeley IPhone
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NOTES, ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT
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Searching for idea, copy and paste into own
documents
Click Highlight
Paste here
Copy

NOTES, ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT
Adding notes
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Adding notes
Adding Annotation

WEB VERSION
IPhone

SYNCHRONIZE AND MANAGE LIBRARY ONLINE
Edit and Manage
Library Online

SHARING AND COLLABORATION
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Creating a group and sharing documents
Public vs Private
Group

MENDELEY IPHONE

ADDITIONAL NOTES
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Searching Related Documents
Searching related
documents
Results
Save references

SEARCHING

THANK YOU
nizal@uum.edu.my
 izwan.nizal@gmail.com
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Future Workshop:
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Unsupervised Data Mining : A Practical Approach