Mendeley Tutorial: Reference Manager - 5 Min Demo

Avoiding reference manager software because I thought I didn't have time to learn was a big mistake. This 5 minute Mendeley tutorial contains the things i wish I'd known earlier, from installation through to referencing and formatting for specific journals.

00:00 Why use a reference manager?
01:02 Download and install Mendeley
01:22 Copy article DOI or Pubmed ID
01:48 Add article to Mendeley
02:11 Insert a citation in MS Word using Mendeley
02:42 Add a reference list / bibliography in MS Word using Mendeley
03:33 Refresh the references in MS Word using Mendeley
03:48 Change reference style in MS Word using Mendeley
04:13 Add a new journal / reference style in MS Word using Mendeley

Me:

[graciem]

Thank you for making this short, simple tutorial!

[andrewr.]

Thank you so much for this quick tutorial. Year 2 of my PhD and I really need to improve my reference logging!

[eliastimner]

Great video. Its simple and gives a beginner a good understanding, what the basic features are. Thanks

[tomvd]

Thanks for the simple explanation. this will definitely be of great value for my MSc thesis, thanks!

[rodelenpaccial]

Finally got around to searching for how to use Mendeley. And voila! I realized how many DAYS of my life were wasted on manual referencing. Thanks!

[hvwoexx]

excellent Tutorial. Would look forward for more reference manager tutorials

[brotherjorge]

useful an well presented...would like the steps been drop at the comment section

[timvanda]

You are the master of simplicity. Thanks for the great (to the point) demo video.

[pratho]

Extremely helpful, Thanks a lot.You made my day !!

[mutiasulistiastuti]

Thank you so much for the tutorial, it's really easy to understand!

[aaronessilfie]

Thank you so much. I understood all you said very well. Keep up the work.

[yareddemssie]

I found it very relevant. Thank you very much

[ambervine]

Hi Stuart,
Thank you for making this short and snappy. Like you I have struggled with referencing, knowing all along there is an easier way, however, not having the time to figure it out (largely due to leaving things to the last minute, thanks ADHD brain!). This, however, was brilliant. Much appreciated

[BakingScienceTraveller]

Thanks for your video!
I've got a question about Mendeley, maybe you could help me... Since the "view" menu on top is gone in the newest version, I don't know, how to change to only use the abbreviations of journals. Can you tell me, how I can do that? That would be great!

[CorinnaOnTheRun]

Thank you for this. Any work-around for Mac OSx 11 (Big Sur)? The Mendeley plug-in doesn't work in Word, which makes half of it useless. Have contacted Mendeley support, but they haven't been helpful with this, so thought you might have some clever ideas :)

[corneliavanvuuren]

Hi Stuart, is there any way to save an online backup of all files added to Mendeley References? Thus, not on the laptop itself/desktop.

[hillz]

I downloaded it, but I doesn’t appear in my word…