Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. It is a very useful tool for reference management through which you can make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.It is a useful tool to create and manage lists of references in any format for research projects.

1. Referencing Style
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By
Binod Kumar Yadav
Senior Librarian & Chief
Central Library
B. P. Koirala Institute of Health sciences, Dharan, Nepal

2. Terminology
1. Citation
 A short note recognising a source of information.
 Is a practice of referring to the work of others in the text
of your own piece of work.
Referring in the text to the source of information used
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 Referring in the text to the source of information used
i.e. reference
2. Reference
 A list containing the details only of those works
(sources) cited in the text.

3. Terminology contd…
3. Bibliography
Greek word ‘bibliographia’ literally “book writing”.
 A list of books/documents relevant to a particular
subject.
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subject.
 A list of sources not cited in the text but referred to in
preparing the work
 List of relevant items not necessarily cited in your text.
Order
- Alphabetical by specific subject or author.

4. Citation & Reference
Citation Reference
- Citing is when you refer in the - Referencing is where you create
text to the source of information a list of the source used.
- Cited in the text - Appears at the end of the work.
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Demonstration:
- Numerically ascending - Listed numerically in the same
order order that they have been cited
or in the text
text (author-date system) or
Alphabetical order by author surname
with date

5. Citation & Reference contd..
 Punctuation marks and space are very important in
the reference and citation.
 Should be followed the preferred style consistently.
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 Should be followed the preferred style consistently.
 Refer to notes/instruction for author of the specific
journal/document

6. Referencing Style
 The Vancouver system – used in medical and scientific journal
 The Harvard system
 Chicago manual of style
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 American Psychological Association (APA)- Psychology,
education and other social sciences
 American Medical Association (AMA) – Medicine &
biological sciences
 Modern Language Association (MLA)- literature & arts

7. Referencing Style contd..
Why do we need reference?
 To give credit to the ideas/works of other authors.
 To allow others (readers) to find the original sources
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 To allow others (readers) to find the original sources
easily (cited reference)
 To make the work informative. (Quality)
 To get recognition & authentication of the work.
 To address the issue of plagiarism

8. Referencing Style contd..
Plagiarism
Examples:
 the verbatim copying of others work without
acknowledgement.
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 the close paraphrasing of others work by simply
changing a few words of altering the order of
presentation.
 the unacknowledged quotation of phrases.

9. Referencing Style contd..
Elements in the reference list
1. Author
2. Title of document
3. Date ( year of publication)
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3. Date ( year of publication)
4. place of publication
5. Edition
6. Periodicity (volume/ issue/ part number)
7. Series

10. Referencing Style contd..
Sources of Information
1. Book
2. Journal
3. Newspaper / magazine
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3. Newspaper / magazine
4. Conference paper/proceedings
5. Annual report
6. Institutional / Government publication
7. Electronic sources- Website, CD-ROM, Databases
8. Theses/ Reports/ unpublished works

11. Referencing Style contd..
Format of book in various system
Harvard: surname, initial/first name., year. Title in italics. Edition.
Place of publication:publisher.
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Chicago: surname, initial/first name. year. Title in italics. Edition.
Place of publication:publisher.
Vancouver: surname initials. Title. Edition. Place of
publication: publisher; year.

12. Referencing Style contd..
Format of book in various system
APA: Surname, initial. (year). Title. Edition. Place: Publisher.
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AMA: Surname initial. Title. Edition. Place: publisher; year.
MLA : surname, forename. Title. Edition. Place: publisher, year.

13. Referencing Style contd..
Format of journal in various system
Harvard: Surname, initials., Year.Title of article. Journal name
- italicised, volume number( issue number), pp. pages.
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Chicago: surname, initial/first name. year. Title of article. Title of
journal. Volume number (issue number): pages.
Vancouver: surname initials. Title of article. Title of journal in
abbreviated date/year;volume(issue):pages.

14. Software enhanced SystemSoftware enhanced System
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15. Managing References :
Mendeley

16. Mendeley is free academic software
(Win, Mac & Linux) to manage, share,
read, annotate and cite your research
papers...
...and a research network to manage
your papers online, discover research
trends and statistics, and to connect to
like-minded researchers.

17. Problem statement…
Your paper
articlearticlearticlearticle
Your topic:
citations
reference list/bibliography
• Lots of typing
• Lost references
• Mistakes
bookbook
conferen
ce paper
conferen
ce paper
conference
paper
citations

18. Use a reference management
tool!
Your article
article
article
article
article
citations
book
book
conference
paper
conference
paper
conference
paper
Mendeley,
Zotero
EndNote Etc.
reference list/bibliography

19. Reference management softwares
• Tools that help scholars to create and manage their lists
of references for research projects.
• Most tools are designed to organize citations into specific• Most tools are designed to organize citations into specific
formats for the preparation of manuscripts and
bibliographies.
• Many search tools provide ways to download references
into reference management tools.

20. What is Mendeley?What is Mendeley?
Answer, please.

21. Syncs Desktop & Web applications
Desktop – a free academic software
to manage, share, read, annotate and
cite your research papers
Web - a research network to manage
your papers online, discover research
trends and statistics, and to connect
to like-minded researchers

22. This is the Web version of
Mendeley which is used to
manage your papers online.
Main menu or
Function menu
My Library/
Collections
References

23. Collections
References
This is the Desktop version
of Mendeley which is used
to manage, annotate and
cite your research papers
offline.
Collections
Filters
Reference
details

24. Remember 1
1. Open your preferred web browser (IE, Firefox,
Chrome, etc.)
2. Go to the website: www.mendeley.com
3. Sign up for an account and download the Mendeley
Desktop.
4. Verify your account. Open the email address that you
use during the sign up/registration.

25. Sign up with facebook
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26. Creating your Mendeley Library
There are several ways:
• Search references within the Mendeley website
• Add a PDF
• Add a folder of PDFs
• Drag and drop PDFs in Mendeley Desktop
Import/export to and from other reference• Import/export to and from other reference
management software
• Add reference manually
• Watch folders to automatically add PDFs to
Mendeley Desktop
• One-click Web Importer

27. Mendeley Desktop
Click & Search
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28. Click

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Save referencesSave references
to libraryto library

30. Sync Library feature from Mendeley Desktop.
By enabling this feature you are able to access
your PDF files in your Mendeley Web library.

31. In Mendeley Desktop, click
Add Documents, browse to
the location of the pdf and
click the Open button.

33. Click Add Folder, browse to
the location of the folder.
Then click the OK button.

35. Export and Import to and from other
reference management software

36. Add Entry manually

37. Use Watch folders to automatically
add PDFs to Mendeley Desktop.
When you place a document in a
watched folder, it will be
automatically added to Mendeley
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Web Importer helps to import references and
documents from a wide range of academic
databases with a single click.
In addition to this it lets you save a snapshot of
any webpage you are viewing.
To install it, click Tools – Install Web Importer.

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The Web Importer can import
documents from different sites
including PubMed.

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In this example, we will use the Web Importer to import documents from PubMed.We will do a search in
PubMed, then go to Favorites (IE) or Bookmarks (Firefox & Chrome) and click Save to Mendeley.Then
click save all or relevant pdf/Document.

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42. Managing your documents and references
 Check duplicates and merge duplicate author names,
tags, or publications
 Documents can be marked read/unread Documents can be marked read/unread
 Search as you type
 Annotate PDFs
 File Organizer

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Occasionally when you are importing references into
Mendeley Desktop, they can become duplicated.
We can find duplicates by selecting the Tools menu, and
clicking the Check for Duplicates option. Then click
confirm merge.

44. Unread
Read
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Documents can be marked read/unread.

45. Favorite
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We can mark your favorite documents with the star icon.
Simply click to star, and click again to un-star. All favorite
documents will appear in the Favorites Folder, which can
refer back to them with one click.

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Search as you type.

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Annotate PDFs.
Open a PDF in Mendeley's PDF viewer by clicking on the pdf icon.
Add highlights and notes by clicking on the Highlight Text or Add Note buttons on the menu.

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Mendeley Desktop’s File Organizer
can automatically rename your PDFs
and file them in a clear folder
structure.
Tools - Options - File
Organizer tab

49. Citing references
 Word and OpenOffice plug-in
 How to cite references?
 How to insert bibliography?

50. To be able to cite a document, generate a
bibliography, or manually edit any entry,We
should install the Word and OpenOffice plug-in
in Mendeley Desktop.in Mendeley Desktop.
Go to Tools – Install MS Word Plugin.

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To insert citation, put the cursor where
you want the citation inserted.
Click Insert Citation button then click Go
to Mendeley.

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Select the article, then click Cite
icon

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Optional : Type keywords (i.e., author, title or year) in
the search box after clicking Insert Citation (instead of
clicking Go to Mendeley) .Then, click the corresponding
article to insert the citation.

54. To insert the bibliography, put the cursor
where you want the bibliography inserted.
Then click Insert Bibliography and all the
cited references will be added to your paper.
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cited references will be added to your paper.

55. To insert the bibliography, put the cursor
where you want the bibliography inserted.
Then click Insert Bibliography and all the
cited references will be added to your
paper.

56. Sharing Documents and References (cont.)
• How to create a group
• Adding members and documents
• Using groups

57. We can create a group by clickingWe can create a group by clicking
on Create Group.

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In this example, we will create a group
named Dialysis with group description –
Medical professionals and click Create
Group.

59. Sharing Documents and References (cont.)
Three types of groups:
• Private Groups – These are invite-only
groups whose content will only be visible to
members of the group.members of the group.
• Public Invite-only Groups – These are
groups which are visible to anyone, but only
members can contribute to them.
• Public Open Groups – These are groups
anyone may join and contribute to.

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We can view the documents of a group by going to
the Documents tab.
To Add Documents, go to the group and click on
Add documents in the top bar or simply drag and
drop documents to the group (either from your
Mendeley folders, or from anywhere else on your
computer).

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The Overview tab shows a summary of
what has happened in your Group.
This is the end of Module 5.2

62. Thank you for your patience
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