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Citation Managers

This guide provides information on various citation managers and how you can incorporate them into your research process.

Mendeley

This page is a brief overview of Mendeley. For more information, check out the following guide:

What is Mendeley?

​Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research:

  • Automatically generate bibliographies
  • Collaborate easily with other researchers online
  • Easily import papers from other research software
  • Find relevant papers based on what you're reading
  • Access your papers from anywhere online

Installing Mendeley Software

It is recommended that you install all three parts of the Mendeley software.  

Mendeley Reference Manager BETA version doesn’t have all the functionality of the existing Mendeley Desktop version yet, but will be adding new features regularly throughout 2019. It works with Mendeley Desktop.