
Once you select the citation(s), click the "quotes" icon.After you click "Go to Mendeley," two new buttons will appear in the icon panel between Sync and Help.Another option is to select "Go to Mendeley" in the dialog box, look for the citation, and send the citation to Word.Additional options for page numbers and other material in the parentheses can be found by clicking on the "Lastname Year" in the text box.
Click "Insert or Edit Citation" and look up a paper. In Word, put the cursor where you would like a citation to appear. Check by visiting "Tools > Install Word Plugin". Mendeley should install and update the Word plugin by default. Note: for each of these methods, the data Mendeley can scrape from a PDF depends on how clean the source data is - garbage in, garbage out! Write a Paper (in Word)ĭepending on your version of Mendeley, the Word toolbar might appear under either "References" or "Add-ins". Use the Mendeley Web Importer, available for many modern browsers. Note: if you have a PubMed ID or digital object identifier (DOI), you can normally use the magnifying glass tool to auto-populate the fields. Click the drop-down arrow beside the "Add" icon or go to "File > Add Entry Manually" to bring up the dialog box to import a file manually. Mendeley will extract citation information for that file.
Drag and drop a PDF file or folder of PDFs into the desktop application.Note: We do not recommend Watching your Downloads folder, as Mendeley will attempt to import anything it finds there. You can set Mendeley up to see whenever you download a new PDF to a folder. In "Preferences" or "Options" go to the "Watched Folders" tab.