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

http://pollev.com/izwannizal

PART 1

• What is Mendeley

• Desktop Version

• Overview

• Creating Library

• Add Files/Folder

• Import/Export Citation

• Web Importer

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.

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

SIGN UP AND DOWNLOAD Click for Signup

Click for Signup

Username/email password

Registered user

Download Mendeley software

CREATING/EDITING PROFILE

Click to view/edit profile

DOWNLOAD

DOWNLOAD

DESKTOP VERSION

DESKTOP VERSION

• Tools > Options

MENDELEY’S FILE ORGANIZER

• Tools>>Options

DESKTOP VERSION

• Tools > Options

Where your file physically

Naming format

OVERVIEW – CREATING LIBRARY

Setup and manage your reference group

Library showing all your documents

ADDING PAPER

Different options to setup library

-Add single or entire folder

Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically

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

ADDING FILES, FOLDER AND WATCH FOLDER • Watch Folder

• Watch Folder on Dropbox

Tick folder to watch

DOCUMENTS DETAILS

Documents details

IMPORT CITATIONS

• You can also:

– Add existing EndNote/BibTex/RIS databases

IMPORT CITATIONS

• Open GoogleScholar

• Search any article[ Example : izwan nizal]

Pdf file

Export Citation

IMPORT CITATIONS

• RIS format >> Export

Click Export Citation

(1)Citation downloaded

(2)Citation downloaded into specific folder

IMPORT CITATIONS • File>>Import>>RIS

(2) (1)

(3)

(4)

(4)

WEB IMPORTER

• TOOLS > INSTALL WEB IMPORTER Click and Drag to your

Bookmarks Bar

Export directly from Scopus and Science Direct

WEB IMPORTER • Click Save to Mendeley

Click Save To Mendeley

WEB IMPORTER

• A list of articles found Save all @ select the

related article

PART 2

• Citing Reference/Generating Bibliographies

• Merging Citation

• Citation Style

• Managing Documents and References

• Manage Library

• Searching Documents

• Literature Search

• Mendeley Suggest

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

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 • Put your cursor at the end of the documents

• Insert >> Page Break

• References (Mendeley) >> Insert Bibliography

Insert bibliography

CHANGING STYLES

• References (Mendeley) >> Styles

Styles

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]

INSERT NEW STYLES

Example:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0puxokjwuxjy0u/Gaya-UKM.csl

UKM Style

MANAGING DOCUMENTS AND REFERENCES

Open attached PDF files

Marked article/Stared favourite paper

SEARCHING DOCUMENTS

Searching article in library

Filtering article

LITERATURE SEARCH

Online searching Any suitable keywords

LITERATURE SEARCH

Number of Articles

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/

ADDITIONAL NOTES

• Searching Related Documents

Searching related documents

Results Save references

SEARCHING

PART 3

• Notes, Annotate and Highlight

• Web Version

• Synchronize and Manage Library Online

• Sharing and Collaboration

• Creating Groups

• Mendeley iPad

NOTES, ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT

• Searching for idea, copy and paste into own documents

Click Highlight

Copy

Paste here

NOTES, ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT

• Adding notes Adding notes Adding Annotation

Web Version

IPhone

Synchronize and Manage Library Online

Edit and Manage Library Online

SHARING AND COLLABORATION

• Creating a group and sharing documents

Public vs Private Group

MENDELEY FOR IPAD

Thank You • nizal@uum.edu.my

• izwan.nizal@gmail.com

• MendeleyCircle@UUM

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