Mendeley Training Notes for research and thesis writing. Including managing long documents using Word 2010

1. 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

2. PART 1
• What is Mendeley
• Desktop Version
• Overview
• Creating Library
• Add Files/Folder
• Import/Export Citation
• Web Importer

3. 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.

4. 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 you’re reading
– Access your papers from anywhere online
– Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app

5. SIGN UP AND DOWNLOAD Click for Signup
Click for Signup

6. Username/email password
Registered user
Download Mendeley
software

7. CREATING/EDITING
PROFILE
Click to view/edit
profile

8. DOWNLOAD

9. DOWNLOAD

10. DESKTOP VERSION

11. DESKTOP VERSION
• Tools > Options

12. MENDELEY’S FILE ORGANIZER
• Tools>>Options

13. DESKTOP VERSION
• Tools > Options
Where your file physically
Naming format

14. OVERVIEW – CREATING LIBRARY
Setup and manage your reference
group
Library showing all your
documents

15. ADDING PAPER
Different options to setup library
-Add single or entire folder
Mendeley will try to extract the document details
automatically

16. 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

17. ADDING FILES, FOLDER AND WATCH
FOLDER
• Watch Folder
• Watch Folder on Dropbox
Tick folder to watch

18. DOCUMENTS DETAILS
Documents details

19. IMPORT CITATIONS
• You can also:
– Add existing EndNote/BibTex/RIS databases

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

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

22. IMPORT CITATIONS
• File>>Import>>RIS
(2)(1)
(3)
(4)
(4)

23. WEB IMPORTER
• TOOLS > INSTALL WEB IMPORTER
Click and Drag to your
Bookmarks Bar

24. WEB IMPORTER
• Click Save to Mendeley
Click Save To Mendeley

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

26. PART 2
• Citing Reference/Generating Bibliographies
• Merging Citation
• Citation Style
• Managing Documents and References
• Manage Library
• Searching Documents
• Literature Search
• Mendeley Suggest

27. CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
• Tools>> Install MS Word Plugin (Mendeley Desktop)
• Open the Microsoft Word [ExampleIntroduction.doc]
• References >> Insert Citations [Mendeley] (2)Insert citation
(3) Go to Mendeley
(1)Put your cursor
where the citation
needed

28. CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Highlight the paper/s you want to
cite

29. CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Click Cite

30. MERGING CITATIONS
Merge Citations

31. CITING REFERENCES/GENERATING
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
• Put your cursor at the end of the documents
• Insert >> Page Break
• References (Mendeley) >> Insert Bibliography
Insert bibliography

32. CHANGING STYLES
• References (Mendeley) >> Styles
Styles

33. 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]

34. INSERT NEW STYLES
Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0puxokjwuxjy0u/Gaya-
UKM.csl
UKM Style

35. MANAGING DOCUMENTS AND
REFERENCES
Open attached
PDF files
Marked article/Stared
favourite paper

36. SEARCHING DOCUMENTS
Searching article in
library
Filtering article

37. LITERATURE SEARCH
Online searchingAny suitable
keywords

38. LITERATURE SEARCH
Number of Articles

39. 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-mendeley-
deskop/

40. ADDITIONAL NOTES
• Searching Related Documents
Searching related
documents
Results Save references

41. SEARCHING

42. PART 3
• Notes, Annotate and Highlight
• Web Version
• Synchronize and Manage Library Online
• Sharing and Collaboration
• Creating Groups
• Mendeley iPad

43. NOTES, ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT
• Searching for idea, copy and paste into own
documents
Click Highlight
Copy
Paste here

44. NOTES, ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT
• Adding notes
Adding notes Adding Annotation

45. Web Version
IPhone

46. Synchronize and Manage Library
Online Edit and Manage
Library Online

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

48. MENDELEY FOR IPAD

49. Managing Long Document in
Words
• Navigation Pane
• Styles
• Table of Contents
• Table of Tables
• Table of Figures

50. Thank You
• nizal@uum.edu.my
• izwan.nizal@gmail.com
• MendeleyCircle@UUM

51. 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