Easy Harvard Referencing | Using Mendeley Plugin, Automatic Bibliography Generator

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★ CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS
00:00​ Introduction
02:00 Why a referencing manager
03:20 Find and save literature
06:30 Inserting references whilst writing
09:00 Generate bibliography
 
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I’m Amina, an academic-turned-entrepreneur. I share content that will inspire, educate and help you reach your full potential. I juggle motherhood, academia and productivity & you can find it all here on my channel. I am a PhD holder in Cancer and Cell Biology from University College London and run The Page Doctor, an academic proofreading company. I also founded Wyaves, a social media agency that helps educational content creators turn their passion into profit and propel companies through their social media strategy. With the rise in AI and academia, I have been sharing ways to use AI ethically in the intersection of artificial intelligence and education. Most of all, I'm passionate about helping individuals make space for everything that is important to them & on this channel, I share my productivity hacks that will help you change your life.

[silvialomba]

I love your kindness in sharing academic secrets...please keep doing so...all the best for you!

[nikkikeogh]

I'm in my first year of an Environmental Health Practitioner degree and I heard you mention Mendeley in another video. I immediately looked it up (last night) and had a little practice session on it. It's amazing! I didn't know these things existed, so thank you SO MUCH for sharing your skills and knowledge. Really appreciated :)

[Rowsonnel]

Your timing is impeccable! I have an assignment due next Thursday and all I have left to complete are the references (my least favourite part) . Thank you!!!

[Limahcares]

I'm glad I found Mendeley through you and more importantly that I found your channel. I am so subscribing!

[elinamakela]

I searched for reference organizers after submitting a 15 page paper last night. I spent ridiculous amount of time on the references, some were hand written and not consistent in style etc. Now I’m considering downloading every single study I come across to a reference organizer, and writing a quick summary of them on Notion. And when I read books, I take notes WITH ACCURATE PAGE NUMBERS and save them in the same place. So when I’m writing I’m not like ”I know this fact because I read somewhere” and then spend 2 hours finding the proper study/book/page!

[yazidnasir]

Impeccable timing in deed. Thank you very much Amina . my assignment is due in December and was wondering how to manage my references.

[rodneychisha]

Thanks Dr.Yonis for this elaborate explanation

[mohamoudjama]

I appreciate you Dr amina l can't measure how well you helped me sis

[sarahprosecco]

I love your videos - so helpful and to the point! While I also really like Mendeley, I started using it after it had been recommended by one of my supervisors for my final year project/thesis BUT just a heads up for those first timers, if importing a large number of research papers:

1.) you need to allow time for the sync to occur (especially if dealing with poor internet ot you may need to try several times), which brings me to

heads up part 2.) if you are using Mendeley to screen your papers and are organising sources into folders while deleting duplicates/irrelevant (or if like me you thought a bunch of papers hadn't imported due to internet so repeated the import process x6 before realising a day later and several additional lit search result imports from other databases later), all papers added within a week or so, will still remain in the 'recently added' folder even after being organised into specific folders or in the deleted folder.

So, don't do as I did and 'select all' (of x6 duplicates) in 'recently added' to be moved to the 'deleted folder' rather than sifting through the several hundred duplicates for systematic review to be selected individually for deletion before selecting all in the 'deleted folder' to 'permanantly delete' after finding that they're still in recently added....only to realise that you have now, not only deleted all duplicates but also, all of your screened, organised, annotated and reviewed lit search results that were in their relevant folders (and the main bulk of my thesis ready to be transfered into the document for formatting) as they had also remained in the 'recently added' folder therefore, had been moved to the 'delete all' folder, which I had now just permantly deleted...1 week before the initial deadline and 10 days before the final/hard deadline and ended up having to repeat 4th/final year because my request for an extension to the hard deadline was denied.


And yes, I know you need to have multiple back ups, I had, until my laptop crashed (poor thing was under pressure), along with a sync issue with the uni microsoft office cloud system and the onedrive for mac desktop app (bane of my life) that resulted in losing an entire year of notes/write ups so I thought 'a reference manager system that I can use on a web browser AND desktop app - I won't have to worry about losing work in the event my little laptop can't handle to pressure and packs it in for good.'

To summarise - don't add a hundred papers at a time, especially if you have crap wifi; recently added papers will remain in recently added even when moved to the 'deleted' or any other folders you create; hardcopy, softcopy, offline and cloud back ups.

[Kamaujkn]

power of Internet at its best. Great work

[Guardian]

Hi Amina..Thank you for this tutorial. Its much appreciated. Best wishes from India.

[winifredaina]

Thanks for making this video very clear. Assuming i have multiple papers and want to create different folders for different papers, how do I go about it?

[ayandanxusani]

So so happy I found this today as I begin to write my literature review for my history MA. Thank you thank you for sharing this and sharing your journey. To anyone using a Mac book, did the Mendeley Web importer extension require you to change your safari preferences? I have that pop up but it says "this extension can read and alter web pages you visit and see your browsing history on all websites. This includes sensitive information from web pages, including passwords, phone numbers and credit cards"

[laboneeyt]

One thing will you tell me after uploading PDFs in mendeley reference manager, I do mendeley cite in ms word. Unfortunately, none of pdf was being shown by mendeley cite in ms word. Why is it happening? I am not able to cite even. I am using up-to-date version. 😢 Guide me.

[khvrnv]

Mendeley is so easy to use and they are free too!

[AimeeWarner]

I, m struggling - mendeley hasnt put it in my bibliography properly... its not listing al authors, I can't seem to change it :(
Can you help?

[AlzheimerSuriname]

I have been struggling with Mendeley for a month now. There is no option "create folder" or "my Library" 
. What stupid mistake am I making? So frustrating!

[joffrimpong]

Please can it do only intext citations, what about citations for beginning sentences which need not to be bracketed

[isaacvaldez]

Thank you for this. Im starting kinda late. Phd candidate here. 3rd year going on to 4th. I've been doing it manually all of this time (crying emojii)

[naturesound]

That’s very helpful, thank you so much.