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Mendeley: Welcome and Setting up Mendeley Reference Manager

How to create and use a Mendeley account at QMU

Mendeley Reference Manager

Mendeley is a citation management software tool that helps you organize the information that you use in your own writing, generate draft citations and references lists or bibliographies, and has many other useful features for academic researchers and writers. 

Here you will find links to Elsevier's Mendeley support webpages, as well as quick tutorials and tips on how you might use Mendeley to improve your literature searching, evaluation, writing, and citation practices. You can also check out the collaboration and networking features that Mendeley offers. 

This page of the guide focuses on getting started with a new Mendeley account. Other tabs on this guide focus on all the functions and features of Mendeley, and ways to get help using Mendeley.  

In September 2020, Elsevier began the migration from the older (legacy) Mendeley Desktop and Cite-o-Matic system to the new Mendeley Reference Manager and Mendeley Cite system.  This guide focuses on the newer system, and a Migration tab is available for those who are interested in switching from Desktop to Reference Manager.  

You are welcome to request one-on-one help from your liaison librarian at any time. Please book an appointment online via the library guides.

Mendeley

Mendeley is a reference manager, academic collaboration network and crowdsourced database with a unique layer of social information research. Mendeley Reference Manager is available on Mac, Windows and Linux. The Mendeley web version functions in most internet browsers. Mobile versions of Mendeley are available for iPad, iPhone and Android devices. 

1. Sign up for a Mendeley account 

Use your QMU email address or personal email address. Please be aware that if you use your QMU email address and forget your password after you have completed your studies you may struggle to reset your password when you no longer have access to your QMU email account.   

2. Go to the Mendeley Reference Manager page

screenshot of the Mendeley Reference Manager download page

screenshot of the Mendeley Reference Manager download button with list of supported operating systems

3. Download Mendeley Cite

Also on the Mendeley Reference Manager download page, there is a link to Get Mendeley Cite - choose the version that is right for the operating system of your computer.  

screenshot of the Get Mendeley Cite link for Windows operating systems

Please check the Mendeley Cite tab in this guide for more detailed Cite installation instructions. 

4. Download the Web Importer

You will see a download button that reflects the web browser you are currently using.  Follow the instructions to install the Web Importer tool. 

Acknowledgements

With huge thanks to Sue Wainscott at UNLV for producing the guide this Mendeley guide is based on.