Mendeley at Georgia Tech

Import references using a variety of methods:

• Drag and drop PDFs from your computer
• Import files from your computer
• Manually create an entry from scratch or by searching a standard number

Organize your library

• Use Mendeley’s smart collections or create your own custom collections
• Search your references by author, title, year and source
• Add custom tags for keyword searching

You can read PDFs that are attached to references in your Mendeley library, and Mendeley offers several options for making annotations and saving notes.

• Annotate PDFs with sticky notes - see all your sticky notes in the Annotations tab
• Highlight text, using different colors to differentiate
• Add highlights to your Mendeley Notebook with one click
• Work on multiple PDFs at once using the multi-tab format
• Mendeley remembers where you reach in a document and opens your PDFs in the same location on all devices

You can collect together all the highlights and comments you make across multiple PDFs using your Mendeley Notebook.

• Add any highlighted text from a PDF to your Notebook in one click
• Navigate back to the source of any highlight by selecting it in your Notebook
• Keep the same Notebook page in view while switching between PDFs
• Make as many Notebook pages as you need

Use the Mendeley Cite add-in for Microsoft Word to generate citations and bibliographies:

• Once installed, Mendeley Cite can be accessed via the 'References' tab on the Ribbon in Word
• You can use Mendeley Cite without Mendeley Reference Manager being open or installed

Choose your preferred citation style

• Select a new style by going to the 'Citation Style' tab in Mendeley Cite
• Change the style by selecting any of the styles, then 'Update citation style'
• If the style you need isn’t listed you can select from among 1000s of styles with ‘Select another style...’ 
• Your top 10 list will automatically update with your new selections in alphabetical order
• If you need to use a custom citation style, you can upload your own style directly into Mendeley Cite

Find and insert or edit individual or multiple references at your cursor position

• From the 'References' tab in Mendeley Cite select the reference(s) you wish to insert, and select ‘Insert citation’
• Edit a reference in a citation (suppress the author in author-date citations, add page numbers, etc.)
• Refresh references to update them with any changes made to your library

Generate a bibliography of all the references you've cited and insert it in your document

• Position the cursor where you want the bibliography to appear in your document
• Select the 'More' menu in Mendeley Cite and select the ‘Insert Bibliography’ button
• Your bibliography will automatically reorder and restructure itself every time you add an additional citation