Citation Management

Mendeley [Men-DEL-ay] is a free Reference Management Utility, Open Dataset Repository, Social Research Network, and Science Job Search Registry for use throughout your entire education and career.

Download Mendeley as either a :

• Desktop Utility for :
  • Windows
  • Mac OS
  • Linux
• Browser Extension for : 
  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
• Citation Plugin for :
  • MS Word/Word for Mac
  • LibreOffice
• Mobile App for :
  • iOS
  • Android

From Mendeley:

What is the Cite-O-Matic Citation Plugin?

• It is a free, simple plugin for Microsoft Word (Windows, Mac) or Libre Office (All platforms).
• Allows you to quickly and easily insert styled citations to reference materials from your Mendeley Library.
• Automatically generates a bibliography for your paper using all the materials you’ve cited.
• Pick from a huge and growing library of citation styles and easily restyle all citations in a paper with a few clicks.

• Using the Citation Plugin
• Video Tutorial : Using the Citation Plugin with MS Word or LibreOffice

• The Mendeley Cite-O-Matic will appear in the MS Word Ribbon under References

• Apple iOS
• Mendeley
• By Elsevier Inc.

• Android
• Mendeley
• By Elsevier Inc.

Mendeley allows you to import your existing citation library from most other reference management software programs.

To import such libraries into Mendeley, start by exporting the bibliographic data from your other software program.

Then, in Mendeley:

1. Click the paper-plus icon () and select “Import other libraries"
2. Browse to your file and select it
3. Click the button.
4. This should import the exported items into your Mendeley library in a date-stamped collection.

Mendeley can import these formats:

• Bibliontology RDF
• BibTeX
• CSL JSON
• Endnote XML 
• MAB2, MARC, MARCXML
• MEDLINE/nbib
• MODS
• OVID Tagged
• PubMed XML
• Refer/BibIX (discourage if any other option present)
• RefWorks Tagged (recommend for ReferenceWorks)
• RIS 
• Web of Science Tagged
• XML ContextObject
• Unqualified Dublin Core RDF
• Zotero RDF