Tag: References

• 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.…

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  March 29, 2012

  1–2 minutes

• Citing research is about to get a whole lot easier.

  The most laborious part of any research paper for me, and probably for many of you, is making sure that the references are formatted in the proper style. Is the title supposed to be in italics? Do I need a period or a comma here? It has always seemed like exactly the kind of thing…

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  drgunn

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  February 2, 2012

  1–2 minutes

• Bibliographies here, bibliographies there, bibliographies anywhere!

  If you are currently a Mendeley Desktop user, you will have already noticed that it comes with built-in plug-ins for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer. These plug-ins are really useful for adding citations to your Word/Writer documents and build your bibliography dynamically. Now, what if you happen to want to add a bibliography section in…

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  November 2, 2009

  1–2 minutes