Author: Ricardo Vidal

• How-to series: How to keep references and documents unpublished (out of catalog) [part 7 of 12]

  As you probably know that, whenever you add a document to your Mendeley library, the document details for that entry are aggregated into our Mendeley databases so as to allow you to easily synchronize your library across multiple platforms. These aggregated data are also used to generate our extensive and multidisciplinary research catalog that is…

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  April 16, 2012

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• How-to series: How to add supplementary data to references [part 6 of 12]

  There are nearly a dozen different ways to add references to your Mendeley library. Reference entries can have a file associated with them or not. In other words, your entries can be just document details or also contain the respective PDF, Word, PPT or other document format.

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  March 30, 2012

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• How-to series: How to copy & paste formatted citations anywhere (LaTeX too!) [part 5 of 12]

  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.…

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  March 29, 2012

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• How-to series: How to check for duplicate entries and merging [part 4 of 12]

  As your reference library grows, it can happen that you add the same research article to your library more than once. Sometimes you’ll have a preprint and the final published example added. In general, Mendeley does its best to avoid having duplicate entries in your library and will tend to merge entries when they have…

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  March 26, 2012

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• How-to series: Generate BibTeX files for your collections for use in LaTeX [part 3 of 12]

  Keeping up with our twelve-part how-to series, this entry will provide you with a simple walk through of how to get Mendeley Desktop generating BibTeX files of your library or folders for use in your LaTeX documents.

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  March 24, 2012

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