Mendeley - Citation Management Software

Insert a citation

Once you have installed  Mendeley Cite, you are ready to add citations to documents in MS Word, Word Online or Word 365. To insert a citation, go to the References tab, and open Mendeley Cite (located on the far right of this toolbar.)

• Place your cursor where you want the citation.
• Search for or navigate to the citation(s) you wish to use. Select the citation(s) and click Insert. 
• Change the citation style by going into the Citation Style tab within Mendeley Cite. If you do not see your preferred style listed, click Select another style. 
  • From the Select another style options, search for a preferred style or add a custom style. See instructions for Modifying & Creating Citation Styles. 

Create a Bibliography

• Under the More menu in Mendeley Cite, select Insert Bibliography. Do this after adding at least one citation. 
• Note: You may want to do this step at the end of your writing process. Mendeley should update your bibliography as you add in-text citations, however this function can be glitchy. 

Using Mendeley Cite: from How to use MENDELEY for citations and reference management by Sunday Okafor, Graduate Research Assistant at the The University of Alabama (~ 6 minutes)

Mendeley is compatible with LaTeX and Overleaf (formerly WriteLaTeX).