Institute of Technology of Cambodia

Faculty of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering

How to use Mendeley: A step-by-step

Lecturer: Dr. KET Pinnara

Group: I4-WRI-A
Name: ID

1. MEN Keo Ratha e20160386

2. LAY Rithy e20160312
3. LEOM Chhea e20160325
4. LIN Leang Puthy e20160335
5. LOCH Le e20160338
6. LY Kimhuy e20160357
7. LY Sivehour e20160366

Academic Year: 2019-2020

 Contents

1. Introduction

2. Objectives

2.1 Creating your own document database

2.2 Automatically creating a bibliography

2.3 Sharing and publically releasing document folders

3. Procedure

3.1 How Mendeley works

3.2 How to reference/cite

3.3 Changing the referencing style

3.4 How to merge citations

4. Recommendations
 1. Introduction

Mendeley is a free referencing and academic social network software. It allows you to collect,
manage, store, share and use research papers and articles, as well as generate bibliographies in
the citation style of your choice. It can be used with MS Word to add citations as you type as
well as compile a reference list at the end of your assignment. It is useful for researchers who
manage a significant number of journal articles and research papers in their studies, but is not
essential for smaller assignments. Note as Mendeley is a free software the university cannot
bear any responsibility for loss of access to references or any subsequent monetization of the
service by its owners.

2. Objectives
2.1 Creating your own document database
 You can store necessary data from various document databases and websites to
Mendeley, save and edit your own document list.
 Free online storage is provided for backup and synchronizing your library between
Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web. On the Medeley Web, you can discover papers of
related research.
2.2 Automatically creating a bibliography

 Data stored to Mendeley can be searched and accessed while writing an article, and used

to automatically create lists of the cited documents and bibliographies.

2.3 Sharing and publically releasing document folder

 Document lists created on Mendeley Web can be shared on the Internet with

classes, seminars, research groups, or other specified members.

3. Procedure

3.1 How Mendeley works

 The application will look like this when you open it:

 The “literature search” allows you to find some pieces of literature and gives you the
relevent pieces of information about the piece – an example if you enter the term
“lysosome”:
 3.2 How to reference/cite

 (Step 1) Click on “tools” on the top left-hand corner of the application and select the
option “install WS word Plugin”

 (step 2) Open your document on Word. we will use a blank document as an example – on
the toolbar, select “reference” – directly beneath it, you’ll see “insert citation”
 (step 3) When you want to cite, select “insert citation” and a pop up will appear. Click on
“Go to Mendeley”:

 (step 4) This will open your “library” of saved references on your Mendeley application.
Click on the relevant document and select “Cite” – this will transfer the citation directly
onto your word document.
 (step 5) Once you have completed your work on the document, you can insert a
bibliography simply by clicking on “insert bibliography” under “references” on the
toolbar.

 (step 6) This will insert a list of all the references you have used when writing the
document like this.
3.3 Changing the referencing style

 (step 1) Sometimes, you are required to cite using a specific referencing style. You
can change the referencing type using Mendeley. You can do this by clicking on
“styles” under “referencing” and choosing “more styles…”

 This will open the Mendeley application and a window called “citation styles”.
You can choose from the installed styles. If your style is not there, you can check
“get more styles”. Once you select your preferred style, select “done” and that will
automatically change the type of style on your word document.
 3.4 How to merge citations

Sometimes when writing, more than one citation is used. These citations can be merged using
Mendeley. The principle is similar to citing as mentioned above but there is an addition to the
process.

 (step 1) Cite both sources as illustrated:

 (step 2) Highlight the citations and click on the “merge” option in the reference
toolbar

 (step 3) The citations merge together. This can be done with as many citations
present.
 4. Recommendations

In fact, there are many other tools which provide a reference manager such like Endnote, Jabref,
Paperpile and Mendeley. Among other reference management software, Mendeley particularly
gains so much popularity and is known as one of the most convenient software for managing
reference. If looking at the procedure, each button provides clear functions and variety of
usages. The Web Importer and Plugin make Mendeley much more time-saving and outstanding,
to say the least. The Sync, in addition, marks the software as a powerful tool accessible at
anytime and anywhere.