in this video tutorial, I'll be explaining how to use Mendeley for referencing.
So this is Mendeley Desktop page with various articles as saved in my library.
If you are using Mendeley for the first time, there may be very few articles in your library.
These articles are the articles I've been able to save in my library over time.
Let's consider this Microsoft Word where I need to cite literature in the write-up
I'm citing this first line...Who said that?
So how do you do that? Go to references. Under references, you see "Insert Citation"
Click on insert citation. A dialog box will pop up.
Once the dialog box has popped up, enter the author's name or the title of the literature you want to cite.
For example, let's say the author's name is Dai. Various articles containing that name will come up. I want to use this article.
But if you are not sure that the correct article was cited, you can always go back to "Insert citation" under "References".
Once you select the correct article, click OK.
You wait for the citation to be inserted.
This is the first citation represented as [1], and if you want to
cite more than two literature in this particular statement,
Click inside the bracket not outside. If you click outside, let's see what will happen.
I clicked outside the brackets and I go to "insert citation"
For instance, I want to reference Liu et al. 2002, this article. I click OK
So you'll be having [1] and [2] separately. But this style is mostly not acceptable.
The generally acceptable style should be in this form [1, 2] or (1, 2).
So how do you make sure that the (1), (2), (3), ..., are enclosed in only one bracket?
Click inside the bracket. While your cursor is in the bracket, go to References. The Insert citation menu will change to "Edit citation.
Click on "edit citation" you will see the previous citation separated with semicolon.
You can then type the title of the second article you want to cite. Once you have selected the article from the options that will come out, click OK.
You can cite as many articles as possible in one bracket following the aforementioned procedure.
Another thing I need to explain is how to change the reference style.
For instance, each Journal has a specific reference style.
This is a Vancouver style. The Journal you are submitting your manuscript to may wants you to use Elsevier numeric or
any form of style which will be stated under the Author's guide document.
If it is Thesis, most institutions accept the use of APA (American Psychological Association).
So if you want APA you just click on APA and the style will automatically change. You can see, it has changed to APA format.
But if the style you want to use is not among the list of styles, you can download the new style.
Go to "More styles" and select "get more styles"
Type in the style name and check it out among suggested styles.
I want to install Elsevier numeric with title which was is not in my default list of styles.
Assuming this is the style you need, select it and click on "install"
The sign here showed that it has been installed. Thereafter, you click on "done" and the new style will be included among your list of reference styles.
Meanwhile, the style has only be downloaded. It has not be selected as your preferred style.
To select the new style as your preferred style, go back to the "more styles" and locate it.
Click on "use this style"
The sign will change from "use this style" to "selected"
Once the desired style has been selected, click OK.
You can see, it has changed from (1-3) to a square bracket [1-3].
So this is how to use different reference styles.
When you are done with your citation and you want to insert the list of references,
go to References and click on "insert bibliography"
In this video, I made use of three citations. These are the references.
You can always change the reference style.
If I want the style to be APA, just go to the list of styles and select APA.
You can see it has changed to the new style.
I want to use RSC style. First, locate the style and click on install.
Note that you will always click on install if the style you need is not already among the default styles.
After installing the desired style, go back to "more styles" then select the style. So let me search for RSC.
I'll click on "Use this style" and click done.
RSC style is usually a superscript as seen here, superscript 1,2,3.
Insert bibliography to bring out all the references you have used.
Another thing I need to explain, in our first video I explained how you can also manually add references to your Mendeley library.
On Mendeley page, go to files and select "add entry manually"
If what you are adding is a journal article, select "Journal Article" under "Type"
You select Webpage, Encyclopedia, Book, etc, depending on the type of document you want to add
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