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Mendeley Reference & Citation Management

Use Mendeley to collect, manage and cite your research resources, create collections for research projects, share your data with your collaborators, and generate bibliographies.

What can Mendeley do?

 

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  • Import and annotate PDFs directly in your personal Mendeley Library.
  • Import website links into your personal Mendeley Library.
  • Create in-text (with Word) and works cited lists.
  • Save citations online or through the desktop download. Mendeley's online component works like the cloud, syncing your library across computers and online.
  • Organize and search your own personal resource library.
    • Create folders and subfolders
    • Star important items
    • Create your own tags for items
    • Search across your entire Mendeley library
  • Search papers in a global interface
  • Collaborate with colleagues and share reference lists

What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is a free citation management tool!

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This guide was created by a Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center staff member and is licensed by the Health Science Library and Informatics Center of the University of New Mexico under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.