How To Use Mendeley Reference Manager (Complete Beginner's Guide)

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use the Mendeley Reference Manager. The Mendeley Reference Manager is a free reference manager created by Elsevier. I'll show you everything you need to know including how to add references to Microsoft Word.
DOWNLOAD LINKS
Mendeley Reference Manager: www.mendeley.com/reference-ma...
Mendeley Cite (Word add-on): www.mendeley.com/reference-ma...
Mendeley Web Importer (Chrome): chrome.google.com/webstore/de...
Mendeley Web Importer (Firefox): addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fire...
Mendeley Web Importer (Mac): apps.apple.com/us/app/mendele...
VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:37 How to download and install Mendeley RM
01:33 How to install the Mendeley Web Importer
02:00 Overview of the Mendeley Reference Manager
04:30 How to manually add references
05:11 How to add references via an identifier
05:55 How to use the Mendeley Web Importer
07:01 How to upload a PDF
07:41 Looking around the library
08:21 How to add reference tags
08:47 How to filter reference by tags & authors
09:13 How to delete references
09:36 How to create collections
10:37 How to create private groups
11:30 Using the Notebook
12:13 Annotating PDFs
13:23 Using Mendeley RM in Microsoft Word
15:52 Accessing your Mendeley library online
16:31 Wrapping up
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This was the best tutorial I’ve seen on Mendeley. Logical flow, examples walkthrough, and not too much; just the essentials to get you going. Thank you!

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The best tutorial I've ever seen on KZbin, No extra talking, to the point details given in a very fluent way. Thumbs up ..

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What an excellent video. This is how everyone should teach and inform people. Thank you. I have gone from a frustrated novice to a quietly confident user.

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I'm currently helping out a group of people from my university with their review article and I cannot thank you enough for this video! Mendeley is definitely super duper helpful in this area

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Absolutely fantastic tutorial. This is going to save me hours of work and decrease my frustration with having to renumber the intext citations which I have been doing manually. Thank you, thank you, thank you!😃

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really informative, non nonsense approach to making a tutorial. three cheers to the sincerity, preciseness and the information compiled smartly in short time.

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This is a brilliant and precise presentation. It is so explicit for a beginner to follow or understand. I am grateful I came across this. Highly recommended for beginners. Thank you!

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Extremely useful for my MSc dissertation. I am of a strong training background so I am very particular about online tutorials; yours was logical and clear!

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This was an incredibly helpful and concise tutorial! It had all the information I was looking for as someone who is just starting to use the citation manager tool. Thank you!

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Excellent. I learned in 17 minutes everything that I need to start me on my journey using Mendeley.. The best presentation I have encountered,, absolutely the best. I am most thankful. Everything clear, concise, and beautifully illustrated. What a joy for a new beginner. Can not thank you enough. Kudos.

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I've waited years to see this. I say a big Thank You in all languages ever spoken.

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Beautifully Illustrated & explained. Congratulations it was wonderful listening to the way things were explained in a very simple, lucid & systematic way.

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Good job -- clearer than longer-winded versions.

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This was very useful as I was struggling to keep a track of and add citations/references for my manuscripts. Thank you for your time and patience 🙏🏼

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This is the best tutorial on referencing I have ever come across. Thank you so much for this.

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Amazing Video! Very helpful for my Bachelor's Thesis Planning.

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Helped a lot to get started with Mendeley as my first reference manager experience. Thanks for the tutorial pal!

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It's also concise and straight to the point. I forgot to add that. Thank you once again.

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this video was very useful. I am switching from endnote x9 to mendeley. I feel more at ease that I did before watching this video. thank you!

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First time watching and i clearly understood the Mendeley app and used it efficiently

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I wish I knew this before I copy/pasted the APA format from Google Scholar. Now I have to manually add each reference again. Thanks for this video.

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Thank you very much... I wasted so much time trying to insert a bibliography, but it's actually so so simple...

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