A preview release of Mendeley Desktop 1.7 is available. This release makes it easier to use custom and 3rd-party citation styles, includes an updated plugin for citing your Mendeley documents in Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac and includes a number of improvements to search.Citation Styles. Easier sharing and installation of custom and 3rd-party styles. Go to View → Styles → More Styles → Get More Styles, paste a link to a style in the box and click ‘Download’. You can also drag and drop citation style (CSL) files into the styles dialog. We have refreshed the available library of citation styles from the repository. This adds many new styles.Updated Mac Word 2011 PluginThe Mac Word plugin has been updated for Word 2011 on Mac.

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The updated plugin has a more obvious UI for inserting citations and bibliographies. It is also much faster when refreshing medium to large bibliographies.

Word 2008 is still supported, but it will continue to use the earlier plugin which is accessible from the ‘Script’ menu in Word.SearchInternal search has been overhauled in this release. Many of the changes are internal to improve consistency, performance and stability. One of the great is without a doubt the citation plugin for your word processor of choice. We currently support most of popular word processors such as MS word (Mac and Windows), OpenOffice, Neo Office, and Libre Office. We’re continuously working to improve the efficiency and general user interface of this plugin because we feel it is an important component within Mendeley Desktop and your overall research workflow.That being said, I’d like to touch on a small aspect that many Mendeley citation plugin users are probably unaware of. If you add multiple citations at the same time, the appropriate is used for such situations.

For example, if you were citing 3 articles and they were the 3rd, 4th and 5th citations added, they’d probably be added as follows 3-5 (if using a numeric inline citation style format like “Nature Genetics”.). However, if you went in to the document and wanted to add another reference in that bundle, it would show up as 3-5 6.

That is not good.Quick solution? Delete the citations and add all four together. Which would mean remembering which reference they were, selecting all four and adding them in again.Better solution? Merge the citations! Just select the 3-5 and 6 citation and then go to your citation plugin options in your word processor and select Merge citations. The end result should be 3-6. No need to go track down the references again.

Just select, merge. Done.Check out this quick 2 minute video showcasing our Word plugin. Have you ever had to quickly send a reference to someone by email or instant message (IM)? How about send a list of references at once?

This can be quite a task if you have to open each PDF, copy the title, author, journal, year, etc. And format them in an email or IM reply.For these cases, and anywhere you’d like to rapidly copy and paste one or multiple references, Mendeley Desktop has got you covered.Here’s how:. Open Mendeley Desktop. Find the folder or group of references you are interested. Select one or more entries using your mouse (you might need to use CTRL, SHIFT and/or CMD to select multiple entries).

Use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+C (CMD+C for Mac) to copy. Alternatively you can use the menu “Edit Copy”.

In your email, IM, Google Docs or any other text editing field, paste the content you just copied. Do so by pressing CTRL+V (CMD+V for Mac) or the menu “Edit Paste”.

There you have it! Formatted references in a few quick steps. Select references, copy, and paste.Quick note for those paying closer attention: you can also copy the references as LaTeX so the crafty LaTeX users can also enjoy the fun (CTRL+K or CMD+K for Mac)!Another quick note: You can change the default formatting used in Mendeley Desktop by going to the menu “View Citation Style”. There are quite a few styles to select from, so enjoy.Stay tuned for the next entry in this twelve-part series of how-to posts. We’ll be going over supplementary data.Previous How-to series entries:. The most laborious part of any research paper for me, and probably for many of you, is making sure that the references are formatted in the proper style.

Is the title supposed to be in italics? Do I need a period or a comma here? It has always seemed like exactly the kind of thing that a computer should be able to do for me, and now with Mendeley it can. Mendeley uses a system for formatting references called the (CSL), which is sort of like HTML, but for citations.

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With Mendeley, you simply tell your word processor what citation style you want (picking from a library of thousands of styles) and our handles the rest. Update (30/09/11): Unfortunately we’ve had a small number of users report a connectivity issue with the Mendeley Desktop v1.1 release on some Windows systems which we did not encounter during testing. Our developers are working hard on a reliable solution to bring you the best experience possible. A Mendeley Desktop v1.1.1 release resolving the issue will be rolled out sometime in the next few days. Until then, we’ve removed the v1.1 download from our servers, and encourage you to use the previous instead. We apologize to those of you affected – we will release the fix asap.

Thanks for your patience.————————–is now available. There are several notable improvements to the citation insertion functionality, as well as significant under-the-hood bugfixes and speed + appearance tweaks. You can read the full release notes here. Highlights. Mendeley now peacefully co-exists with Track Changes in MS Word.

Inserting citations and refreshing the document is much faster. Watched folders now work much better on the Mac. Check for Duplicates decisions are now persistentInterface tweaks include better performance of web content in the desktop client and smaller download/update sizes. Many old UI issues have also been resolved.Please to Mendeley 1.1 now. Many researchers use Mendeley to format citations as they’re writing papers, but what if you’re working on something a little less formal? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to drop a few citations into a comment or web form or some other application that doesn’t have the tight integration that’s available with Word or Open Office?

There are a couple quick ways to grab a formatted citation using Mendeley: use the “copy formatted” option in Mendeley Desktop, grab it from the page in the research catalog, or just drag it into your application. Available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux What our users are saying Recent Posts.Categories.Archives.

Mendeley Desktop is a free software application, which allows you to organize and share your research, discover papers (documents), etc. It is the perfect solution for research management and online collaboration. It allows you to easily create your own bibliography. Features.

Create your personal bibliographic database. Synchronize, share, manage and embed bibliographies. Search within Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer. Capture citations for websites. Multiple browser compatibility.

Sticky notes support. HighlightingFirst you may think that Mendeley Desktop 1.13.8 is just an ordinary PDF reader and you will be wrong. It is a lot more than that. Mendeley Desktop allows you to create your own personal bibliographic databases and access them from multiple machines. It also provides you with the possibility to share it with your colleagues in order to speed up the research workflow.

If you install the additional plugins for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer you will be able to search for DOC and ODT files. Mendeley Desktop provides you with Notes, Sticky Notes and highlighting features as well, which are an integral part of each research project. Mendeley Desktop comes with very simple and appealing interface design, which assures you great user experience.

Its main window is divided into four - My Library, Authors, Needs Review and Notes snippet. It is not necessary to have them all. You are able to hide the Author and Notes panels with a single click. You are also allowed to resize them in the way you want in order to fit your screen. The interface doesn't just look superb, but also works smoothly as well.

The producer has implemented several buttons, which are named below the icon. This fact guarantees that you won't wonder what you should do if i.e. You need to add a file/folder or sync your library with Mendeley Web. Basic OperationsWhen I heard about this software for the first time, I was sure that it was too complicated, because it was related to research. However after installing Mendeley Desktop, I found out that it was actually very user-friendly. For instance, searching within multiple PDF documents is just great.

It will really ease the research process dramatically. There also are two more features, which are not installed by default – Web Importer and MS Word Plugin. The first one allows you to import your investigation on a web page or blog very easily. The other one provides you with the possibility to search within your DOC files. ConclusionMendeley Desktop 1.13.8 is an award-winning, academic reference manager and web solution.

Its main purpose is to ease and speed up your research workflow and distribution over the Internet or among your colleagues. This software application is probably the best solution available today to create your own bibliography.