Category: Tips&Tricks
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Tips & Tricks: How to Tailor Mendeley Newsfeed
We launched our Mendeley Newsfeed a year ago, but it hasn’t remained stagnant: we’re constantly working with researchers to create a more useful newsfeed. Here are our top four tips on how to tailor newsfeed content: URLs in a post can be expanded out to show the contents of the URL. This means followers will…
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Insert references into your paper using Mendeley’s Web Library
[Editor’s Note–We thought you’d like to know: this 2017 post is a bit dated. Find current info on Mendeley’s citation abilities here, and in the Mendeley Guides.] You can now export references from your Mendeley Web Library into the Microsoft Word Citation Manager — without opening your Mendeley Desktop. The export feature uses Microsoft Word’s built-in citation…
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Mendeley and Elsevier continue to support the CSL project
For the second consecutive year, Mendeley supports the open source Citation Style Language (CSL) project with a US$ 5,000 donation. With CSL, Mendeley users can format their citations and bibliographies in over 1,200 different citation formats, covering more than 7,500 scientific journals. Mendeley recently (1) made it much easier to use CSL styles into your…
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Elsevier Guide for Authors
Last week, in collaboration with Elsevier’s Guide for Authors team, we quietly rolled out a small, but worthwhile improvement for authors who use Mendeley, and who are submitting to Elsevier journals. When viewing the ‘Guide for Authors’ page on an Elsevier journal site, the section on how to format your references now contains a link that will install…
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Check the app store: Your iOS upgrade is here
We’re happy to announce another update to Mendeley for iOS! This release helps bring our iOS app closer to your Mendeley Desktop experience, with metadata extraction. Additionally, it includes faster and more reliable sync, and several bug fixes, which takes advantage of the new Mendeley API, especially when syncing your iOS app for the first…
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