Category: Tips&Tricks

• 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

  1–2 minutes

• 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.…

  Written by

  Ricardo Vidal

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  March 29, 2012

  1–2 minutes

• 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

  2–3 minutes

• 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

  1–2 minutes

• How-to series: Drag and drop PDF links into Mendeley for direct download [part 2 of 12]

  Here’s our second instalment of our twelve part series of short how-to blog posts. We previously looked at how to merge author names in Mendeley Desktop. This time, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to download a file directly into Mendeley by simply dragging and dropping a PDF link into the desktop application.

  Written by

  Ricardo Vidal

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  March 22, 2012

  1–2 minutes