Mendeley Part 3: Adding Citations and Articles
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
- Mendeley Part 3: How to add citation and pdf files to Mendeley with ease. Three examples of how to add a citation to Mendeley and some common problems with citation entries from various databases.
Remember: Citation FIRST, then attach the article to it.
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Dear Professor Copeland,
Thank you so much for this video series on Mendeley! I’m transitioning from finance / business into social sciences, and the whole research process is completely new to me. I tried using Mendeley on and off for the past two years, but I never quite understood where it fits into the research process. The examples of how you use Mendeley for your own research were eye-opening for me, and I know understand how to proceed with my own first real research paper!
Thank you so very much for making those videos!
Anastacia
Anastacia Kay what a kind comment! I'm so happy that you were able to use the info. Good luck in your research!
Many thanks Dr Copeland, from a 57 year old who is starting a PhD at Kings College London in a month! WOW I had heard of thie Mysterious Mendeley and you have explained it wonderfully! I think there is a quotation in the Old Testament that reads something like this: '....truly a good You Tube post doeth good for a middle-aged PhD canddiate like medicine...' Thank you sir!!!!
Dear Professor Copeland,
I would like to place on record my ineffable appreciation for sharing this videos on how Mandalay works, no other mission could be nobler. I am currently busy with my MBA and have never used Mandalay before and this video have contributed immensely on my understanding of how to us citation and bibliography.
I would like to personally thank you from the bottom of my heart for this noble course.
Regards
Shakespeare from South Aafrica
Dear Professor Copeland,
Thank you so much for these videos on Mendeley! The information you shared helped me a lot. I found these videos a year ago and still using it as a guidance in my research process. It made a huge difference for me.
Thank you!
I wish i could like this video twice. you just saved a life.
Fantastic 3 videos. I have watched these 3 times now. Great for a beginner who has never been to Uni before. Thank you!!!
Glad you found it useful
I am feeling glad that I have found this tutorial before I present it to my M.Phil fellows with hands on practice. Thanks Dr. Chris Copeland
Dear Professor Copeland,
Thank you for the information you have shared. It is very useful for researcher like me. You are doing a great job. Thank you very much.
Excellent videos. I saw parts 1 to 3 on mendeley app and very explicit!
This was extremely helpful (and I even recognized some of the names on your reading list). Thank you!
I am elated that you found it useful!
Great three-part series. I have officially switched from EndNote to Mendeley.
Kilo Victor I'm glad you found it helpful and useful!
Thank you, Dr. Copeland! This is a really big help!
THANKS, Chris | When I insert citation from Microsoft word it shows the wrong citation. Now I understood how to download a file to Mendeley for correct citation
Thank you so much for the video and the step-by-step explanation, it´s really helpful!
Hello
I'm student of MD
I'm definitely gonna use it in my Thesis 👍
Very nice tutorial, really appreciate. I would like to see a video comparing Mendeley with Citavi. Well, great video, thanks!
Thank you so much for your video Dr. Copeland. Its really been very helpful to me.
I'm so happy to hear that!
Thank you so much Dr. Copeland for this extremely insightful, concise and informative video. It helped me a lot. I am so grateful. Can you suggest if there is any possibility that we can directly add citations from the reference section of a paper? Review papers pack tons of references in them, if this was possible, it would be a lifesaver.
Very insightful.....thanks Dr. Copeland
I have no option under the tab tools , to organize . Everything you have done I am unable to do with my file . Unable to download any file
Hi Chris, thanks for sharing your knowledge. I started using Mendeley for my Master thesis. Most of my references are from journal articles, but how would you suggest referencing from speeches and legal sources?
It depends on the legal source. You can add a reference by hand and select from a drop down menu. I do this all the time to cite Mapp v Ohio and other SCOTUS decisions. You can also add case law and other items manually. You will then just need to adjust the items in the reference to meet your citation needs
@@DrChrisCopeland Thanks. a quick repsonse time! :-) So how would you categorize a speech in the drop-down menu? ("type") and a legal source e.g. an EU-regulation?
@@steenladegaardhansen1245 No problem! I would probably use a "generic" entry for a speech, unless the speech is written somewhere as a document, then I would cite the document as it is easier. As an example, Presidential speeches are often recorded or transcribed and archived, I would cite the archive version. This method may or may not work for you.
@@DrChrisCopeland Dear Chris, once again thanks for your useful videos. I have been successful in asking you before, so I try again. I have been citing stuff in the format (author, year) but apparently I need to cite the specific page as well. Is there a way to cite in the format (author, year, page) Or are there other ways? Thanks in advance! :-)
@@steenladegaardhansen1245 In word, when you enter the citation, select the author you want, then click the author name in the box. It should show you a option to put in the page number. In video 1, at 17:34 you can see me enter "Grover". Clicking on the author name brings up these options.
I hope this helps
Thank you for making these amazing videos. They were very useful.
I'm writing my essay and I have downloaded one thousand papers and I want to add them to Mendeley. How can I check them one by one? Or How can I download the citation of all of them? I would be pleased if you explain about that.
Thank you!
Hi Chris, your videos are excellent- starting a PhD at Kings College London. One question: ( which I do not think you cover in this video). Why download ris files at all? Why not simply drop and drag the pdf file and its done? I have set up my Mendeley account and I have faithfully following the procedures outlined in this video . I woke up today and asked myself, why do we bother with this at all????
PDF files are not al created equally. The meta data is usually incorrect as it is generated by the publisher automatically. The ris file is correct. While Mendeley will read PDF file meta-data correctly, it doesn’t mean that the meta-data itself is useful. By download the RIS file you avoid this problem. I hope that helps
@@DrChrisCopeland Many thanks to wherever in the world you are, USA I guess. OK so the ris file provides the highest level of accountability/ accuracy. Thanks again! Copeland lives!
Thank you Dr,Chris.
You are most welcome!
Very useful information. Thank you ... Greetings from Indonesia....
I'm happy that this was useful to you!
Oh so I don't need to have a Folder with 45 sub folders in my computer with all my PDFs! If I understood well it is safer to have them stored in Mendeley since they are in the cloud. Mmm I only hav one question Dr. Copeland, What the function watch folder does? I am little bit confused here, thanks so much for this videos that are helping thousands of students like me.
Hey I'm happy to help and glad you found it useful. 45 folders is about where I was when I started this journey. The watch folder is for "automatic importing" of PDFs. It can be useful, but given the inconsistency of PDF metadata (which is why you want the RIS/Bibtex/etc), I have never found it efficient to use. Some day, in a perfect world, the PDFs that come from databases will have correct and consistent metadata to build the reference from. If that happens in my lifetime, I will give a loud and thunderous cheer, toast the gods, and use the hell out of the watch folder.
@@DrChrisCopeland Amazing Dr. Copeland, now I get it, thank you so much new sub hereee !!
Dr. Copeland,
Thanks for the videos. As a person who wanted to use Mendeley, but thought I could figure out on my own, I did not set up correctly! I am having to go back and redo a lot. Yes, I imported hundreds of articles from over 3 years of Ph.D. student work via drag and drop and all my citations are terribly formatted. Yes, I was that person!
For someone like me, what do you suggest for getting organized? Do I start over? Or just begin by moving forward and fix as I go? Also, I have many pdfs that I annotated myself out of Mendeley ( very detailed color-coded notes) can I import that specific file into Mendeley with my highlights on it already or does that have to start over too? I am willing to invest in this as reference management will not go away but how do I make the best use of my time as I get my dissertation organized.
I have done this myself! Don't worry. Starting over is a bad idea mostly because it seems you are pretty far along. I cleaned up as I went back through on articles I needed for each paper or publication. I started with anything in my dissertation first, then moved on from there. It will be more cumbersome this way, but it will save you from losing any annotations, notes, highlights, etc. You can always look up an article using the title on Google Scholar to see what needs to be changed or fixed. If you have the doi, you can also quickly find that info and fix the citation. I still find citations now that need fixing and I just do it as I see them, but only on what I need at the time. Eventually, you work through them. You are not alone!
Dr. Chris Copeland I realized I can import the PDFs with my current annotations and highlights and then add on from there. I agree start with dissertation citations and fix as I go!
I have Watched your 3 part series,as well tutorial of endnote on youtube, Now i have one to choose [Don't wanna learn both, wanna learn only one which is most powerful]
If one is ready to pay for Endnote software then which one is better in pure capabilities basis ? [i will highly value your answer]
It’s really which one is easiest for you and your needs. Which one fits your academic study habits and needs? For me that was Mendeley and I switched from Endnote. Only you can make that call, I just put these out here so students can make an informed decision and have a good example of how to use the tools
@@DrChrisCopeland have you found any specific thing end-note can't and mendeley can? [ Finding Bottol neck / nitpicking]
Hello Dr. Chris Copeland,
I, Abdul Kalam, a research scholar pursuing Ph.D. in University of Hyderabad, India. I recently started using Mendeley to cite the references (earlier I used endnote).
I have added 130 references (out of 503) to a word document using Menedely.
Could you please clear my doubts
1. Can I save or import the bibliography from this document in to any file so that I can reopen it in endnote?
2. Can I see the references that I have cited in this word document in a separate folder as I see while using endnote?
Thanks for your help.
Thanks for the video. If I want to add PDFs for multiple citations, do I need to add the file one by one, or is there any way that I can add them accordingly at once?
If you want to modify the file info for all the PDFs by hand, you can then skip the RIS part. It would mean that you have to check all the metadata for every PDF first, then load them in bulk. I don’t know that this would save you any more time. There is no other way to attach files to a citation except one by one, it does make the information clean though.
Thank you for your video. I m using a macbook and i can't find "option" when I click on Tools. Is there another way to organize my files so that I can read them In Mendeley even if I delete them from the download folder
Gatien Kamsu I haven't use the Mac version now in some time. See if options you want are under "preferences". You can sometimes find this under the File or Edit menus. Baring this, reach out to @MendeleySupport, they are very responsive.
Dear Prof Chris
Did you notice any discrepancies when using the ris file, compared to the browser plugin function?
Mohammed Alnobani morning t depends on the website and who runs it. I prefer the RIS files only because they are more standard. I do use the plugin on Science direct
Hi Chris.
Great video, you have really help me. I am a first year MBA student and I have not studied for over 20 years.
I have a question. How do we add secondary source citation using Mendeley? For example, if cannot find the academic document but the academic journal I am reading refers to it.
For example: (Miller, 1953, as cited in Agrios, 2005).
I googled how to do it manually but is there a way to do it in Mendeley.
Regards Tyrone
So my automatic and professional response is always, never use secondary sources. That being said, you can modify any citation in the text manually. libguides.mq.edu.au/mendeley/edit_in-text_citations
@@DrChrisCopeland thanks for the advice. All the best, Tyrone
Hi, Thank you so much for your video. I am watching this video for an assignment in class. I watched one of your previous videos and downloaded Mendeley from the same website. The version I downloaded for windows this morning looks nothing like your screen in your video and I haven't figured out how to add citations into a word document. Am I doing something wrong?
Make sure you downloaded Mendeley Desktop not Mendeley Reference Manager, it’s on the downloads page as well, just no button.
@@DrChrisCopeland I think that’s what it was. I’m downloading the desktop program now. Thank you!
Thank you very much
Hi Dr. Chris, what about secondary reference can we use mendeley to do it ?
I am using Mendeley Desktop for Mac 1.19.4. All my files are in my hard drive on my laptop. But now I will be getting a new laptop and return this school one. How will I have access/ use the existing library from my current laptop's Mendeley to my new laptop? Please guide me. I am NOT a tech person. Thank you!
Make sure to turn on "organize my files" in the options. Then let mendeley do that process. Once it is done, sync to your account. When you download Mendeley, it should pull all the files for you to your new laptop. You can always login on the web to verify that the PDF files are in your account. I hope this helps.
@@DrChrisCopeland Thank you. There will be a time gap between returning the old aptop and getting the new one. I have both organized and synced my files in my current laptop/account. Now will it be only about installing Mendeley on the new laptop and loggin in with the same account there? What will happen to the actual pdf files/books? Now, I have a Documents folder with the pdf/books, AND a Mendeley folder with the same files that Mendeley created with own file name structure. What should I focus on after the migration?
Raihan Jamil yes once the files are synced to your online account, they will download to any device that you install Mendeley on and login. I do this all the time when the university provides a new laptop or desktop.
Raihan Jamil also I would just focus on the new machine and keeping the files organized though Mendeley. Should anything happen to the new laptop, your files and citations are safe in the cloud.
@@DrChrisCopeland Thank you for your prompt and helpful answers sir. They are very helpful. One last question, if I may. When Mendeley organized all my pdf content in its own folder, I saw many files with names like this "Unknown - Unknown" for (Author and Year). I painstakenly renamed each one of them yesterday to make more sense. After I synced it today, all them reverted to Unknown - Unknown :( I would really like a clean and useful library that I can continuously enhance. What do you recommend I do?
Dr.Chris what about secondary references.....each reference we have to get and grab into mendeley....some times old chapters citations are not available.....plz reply....
New G a secondary reference is typically not desirable. Always check with your instructor about secondary sources. Mendeley does not do this by default because in publishing, secondary sources are not used. Refer to your citation style handbook for the proper method of citing secondary sources.
Thanks a lot sir....
i have a problem with the references. i convert the word file into pdf and then when i click the references in the text (eg [1],[2],..) it does not actually lead me to the references at the end of the pdf. i hope you understood what im trying to say.
If you converted the paper you are writing to a pdf, the pdf engine will convert those to links the best way it knows how, which never works. This is not something that Mendeley does, rather a function of PDF rendering which is handled by the software used to make PDFs. Every pdf engine does it a little differently. Mendeley is only used to add citations while writing the paper and auto format the citation and references in Word/OpenDoc. I hope this helps
Dr. Chris Copeland yeah thanks!
Great. thank you very much
First of all, thanks for this informative video. I wonder whether mendeley-web importer extension does what the citation file does or not.
If you use the web-importer, it will try to pull in the information from the citation, but only if the citation on the webpage understands the Mendeley login and API. So far, only Science Direct database does this without error, but they are also owned by the same company that owns Mendeley.
@@DrChrisCopeland Thanks for rapid response.
Thank you
This seems like a lot more steps than what I was doing manually to download files. Is it okay to only copy the citation file into Mendeley and just keep the PDFs on your computer elsewhere? I just want to be able to auto insert citations.
Of course, whatever works best for you. I have found that I need the PDFs and if you let Mendeley store them, it acts as a backup of the PDFs.
How to create MLA style citation to mendeley?
How do we transfer an article from the literature search to the library?
Dear Concern,
If i want to give three reference at a time in mendeley it showed following way [1][2][3]. How can i arrange this way like[1-3] instead of [1][2][3]. ?
Although I use IEEE from time to time, I am not an expert in it. That being said, I believe that when the mendeley citation window pops up to select your authors, you should be able to select multiple authors at that time. It should then show [1]-[5] or how ever many authors you have chosen. You can select as many authors as necessary in the in-text citation when you first insert the citation in Word. You do not have to do an insert for each author, which might give you the result you are seeing. You can also see a reference guide for IEEE located at libguides.murdoch.edu.au/IEEE/text. You can see there the preferred format for citing multiple authors. I hope this helps. Remember to always defer to your professor and/or department standards for citations.
Thanks a lot Dr. Chris Copeland
I also have that problem. What should I do?
Hi Chris,
Is there any option to link in-text reference to reference in bibliography automatically using Mandeley??
Thank you!
Mendeley does this automatically depending on the citation style. APA and MLA are alphabetical, but IEEE and other similar styles will auto-number the citations from what you link in the narrative. Check out Part 1, what is Mendeley for an example of this, I switch between APA and IEEE all the time.
Dr. Chris Copeland , thank you so much for your response. My question is that is there any option in Mendeley so that I can hyperlink the in-text reference to reference at bibliography (if I click on in-text reference, it direct me to the exact reference in bibliography).
Thank you.
I apologize, I did not understand the first time. No, Mendeley does not do this as academic writing citation styles do not use in-text hyperlinks (in your case, anchor-links). The application is geared for writing with citation and references. Modern scholastic databases do what you are looking for, but only in the sense that it helps find articles faster in terms of citation/source searches.
I don't suppose you happen to know where to find the output citation styles for Mendeley when they are not already there? I need the Australia Harvard one.
I am not sure about that specific one, but in Mendeley, if you click on "View -> Citation Style -> More Styles", you can see what is currently installed and the next tab "Get More Styles" allows you to select from the styles available to the community, you can install what you need or want from there. You can also check csl.mendeley.com/about/ for additional styles or to modify a style to suit your needs.You can search that site by name or by example to find the one that best fits your needs.
@@DrChrisCopeland Thanks heaps....I have found another UNI's style there which will be exactly the same so all good. Thanks for your help. Looking forward to all your other videos.
Can I use a citation in '.bib' or '.enw' file format instead of '.ris' to include in Mendeley and then a pdf file link?
You can, but sometimes those are not complete or have missing information so you may have to fix the entry manually. RIS is the standard file type,but Mendeley will read bib and enw. It all depends on who made the file. I have done this in the past. I only teach the RIS method as it is the standard and has the least amount of possible failure. I hope this helps
@@DrChrisCopeland Thanks. But I don't get the '.ris' file for all the research papers, articles or etc. Is there a website where all the papers are listed with the option to '.ris' file? Which website do you use in the video?
@@sanjayguptacg486 the ones in the videos are academic databases for research articles. You can always copy the name into google scholar. If you watch the video I have on using scholar you will see how to access bib text citations for the searches
the question I am looking for. how do I add multiple bibliographies in one document at different places
I am not sure how to accomplish this with Mendeley. It was designed for more traditional projects that would use one bibliography as it sets up form fields in the paper and makes the bibliography from this data. You would probably want to copy the references out of Mendeley as a "formatted citation" and paste them manually if you need multiple bibliographies. I do this sometimes when doing an annotated bibliography where a traditional references page is not needed. I hope this helps.
Thank you so much for the elaborated answer Dr. Chris. I have theoretically figured out a hack. One can continue to add their references and citations with Mendeley; making sure to separate the sections of the document with section-breaks from the layout tab in word. At the end of the project, let (a trial version of) EndNote recognize all the citations in your document and convert them to endnote format. Then edit the style of referencing/citation in the EndNote (there is an option for adding separate bibliographies in each section there.) Apply that style. done (in theory, as I said). ✅
Hello Dr. Chris please advice how do I add a footnote
Hello! Footnotes are not handled by Mendeley. Footnotes are something that Word or Open Office will handle as they are not actually citations. Here is a tutorial on adding footnotes and endnotes in Word: support.office.com/en-us/article/add-footnotes-and-endnotes-in-word-61f3fb1a-4717-414c-9a8f-015a5f3ff4cb
sometimes mendeley forgets years in text citation, so how can we solve it?
Asaye Asfaw I have only seen this happen when the citation type does not require a year. You may want to contact mendeley support on twitter, they are very responsive!
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