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 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.
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.
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.
Please check the Mendeley Cite tab in this guide for more detailed Cite installation instructions.
You will see a download button that reflects the web browser you are currently using. Follow the instructions to install the Web Importer tool.
With huge thanks to Sue Wainscott at UNLV for producing the guide this Mendeley guide is based on.