One of the great built-in features in Mendeley is without a doubt the citation plugin for your word processor of choice. We currently support most of popular word processors such as MS word (Mac and Windows), OpenOffice, Neo Office, and Libre Office.

Mendeley Reference Manager is useful for storing, editing, and viewing PDFs on your computer and automatically creating citation data from the PDFs.

1. Mendeley allows you to import citations and bibliographic information directly in to your Word document. (See installing the Word plug in).Depending on whether you're working on a Mac or Windows computer the location and look of the Mendeley plugin will be slightly different, though the functionality is the same.
2. Mendeley Word Plugin doesn't work with the updated Microsoft Word for M1 MacBooks as of December 15th. I just installed the Microsoft Office Update and the plugin doesn't work. I already told the Mendeley Support team.

Import PDF documents — When you import a PDF into Mendeley, it will try to extract information from the PDF to create a citation – author, title, year, volume, etc. You can do this by:

• Using the Add New button.

• Go to the File menu and select Add Files.
• Drag-and-drop PDFs from your computer to the Document Pane (the middle part of the window).

Manually add a citation. This is useful if you don’t have a PDF to add to Mendeley. If you manually add a citation but later have a PDF, the PDF can be added to the citation.

Choice of citation style. Mendeley comes with some citation styles, but it has hundreds of additional styles you can download by following the instructions on the CSL Citation Styles website.

Folders/Collections of documents. You can create collections to organize your documents in whatever groupings make sense to you. Documents can be in more than one collection.

Tagging of documents. This is in addition to the keywords, which could be pulled from journal databases. Tags can be more informal words that help you arrange your documents around concepts that make the most sense to you.

Ability to quickly mark documents as Favorites, Read, or Unread. Stars indicate your favorite sources, and the green dots indicate that it is unread.

Reading of PDFs from within a Mendeley PDF viewer. In the viewer, you can highlight text, create notes, and select text.

Plug-ins to connect to Microsoft Word (PC and Mac) and LibreOffice (PC, Mac, and Linux). Plug-ins allow access to your Mendeley Library from Word to create citations and bibliographies in your Word document.

Citing Items in Word with the MS Word Plugin

1. Open Mendeley Reference Manager and select 'Tools' and then 'Install Mendeley Cite for Microsoft Word.' If the plugin is already installed, this option will be changed to 'Uninstall MS Word Plugin.'

2. Open Microsoft Word and click on the 'References' tab.

3. You should see a box titled 'Cite with Mendeley.' This is the Word plugin.

4. If you click the 'Mendeley Cite' button within this box, a window pops up with options to search the Mendeley Library.

If you search for an item directly from this box, you'll see a list of results appears below the search bar. Select the one you want, click 'Insert 1 Citation' and you'll see the citation appear in your paper.

5. If you choose not to insert a citation, make sure to click cancel. Otherwise Mendeley will think you’re still trying to insert a citation and won’t let you insert another.

6. Automatically generate a bibliography or works cited page by clicking 'More' and then 'Insert Bibliography.' This tool will create a full citation for every source used in your paper.

If you are using a different operating system (such as Mac or Libre), it may be helpful to look through Mendeley's guide 'Using the Citation Plugin'.

Sync your Library with your Mendeley Web account.

This will allow you to access to your data on your Mendeley Web account. If you want to have the desktop application installed on more than one computer, syncing through the Mendeley Web account will keep the information up-to-date on all of your machines.

Microsoft Office 2016 on Mac

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The Mendeley citation plugin now works with Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac (and Windows, but that worked already), so you can now, once again, easily generate citations and bibliographies.

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You can install the Word plugin from the “Tools” menu in Mendeley Desktop. Once installed, you’ll need to restart Office and then find the citation controls in the “Add-Ins” tab of the ribbon toolbar in Microsoft Word.

Please bear with us on the aesthetics of the ribbon toolbar – we are waiting for Microsoft to make some changes to their ribbon implementation to allow us to achieve a design that looks like the rest of the ribbon, but this currently isn’t possible. We are told the changes may be a few months away.

In addition, we’ve fixed numerous general and plugin bug fixes, which we’ve listed below:

General bug fixes

• Fixed arXiv and PubMed ID lookup.
• Increased file size limit to 250 MB.
• Fixed exported BibTeX when document notes contain multiple lines.
• Fixed exported BibTeX when metadata contains accented characters.
• Fixed bug exporting some “month” metadata fields to BibTeX files.
• “A” initials in the document won’t be occasionally converted to lowercase after importing a PDF.
• Enabled Edit Find Next/Previous in the PDF viewer.
• Saves PDF zoom levels when switching tabs.
• Fixed a crash when retrieving certain annotations.
• Fixed bug exporting some “month” metadata fields to BibTeX files.
• Avoids creating duplicate annotations when switching tabs.
• File organizer now works across partitions.
• In Literature Search, the button to add a document to your library situated in the document view is back.
• Switching tabs will keep the last read position of each open PDF.

Citation Plugin bug fixes

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• Improves reliability of plugin installation for Microsoft Word 2011 on Mac.
• Avoids showing an error message when opening a protected Microsoft Word document (e.g. when a document has been downloaded).
• Exporting MS Word compatible from LibreOffice 4.4.3.2 won’t raise an exception anymore.
• Fixed the error when canceling “Export Compatible with LibreOffice”.
• A LibreOffice plugin installation error has been fixed.
• (Mac): In the Word for Mac plugin, updating your citations and bibliography won’t make the Word document file get bigger each time (causing a Microsoft Word error after a while).