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Citation Styles & Tools

What your citation looks like depends on the style that your academic discipline follows. If you don't know where to start (and if your instructor hasn't specified a style guide to follow), read through the overview of common citation styles.

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Mendeley

 

 

Mendeley Reference Manager is a free web and desktop reference management application with a cloud-based library that syncs automatically, making changes accessible across locations, devices and Mendeley tools. Annotate and share documents with groups of colleagues.

  • Free to download with registration
  • 2GB of personal library space (Additional storage is available at tiered rates through Mendeley Premium)
  • Create private groups with collaborators for sharing common documents 100MB shared web storage across all groups
  • Collate all highlights and notes from multiple PDFs in Mendeley Notebook
  • Search Mendeley for relevant scholarly literature on any topic and connect citations to PDFs on your computer, or import PDFs directly into Mendeley
  • Browser extension
  • Import PDFs and web pages directly into personal reference library
  • Available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge
  • Available as a free plug-in that is compatible with MS Office 365, MS Word, and with the Microsoft Word app for iPad®
  • Automatically generates citations and bibliographies and inserts citations into MS Word documents (library must be synced to the Mendeley Cloud)

Mendeley Help Guides and Tutorials

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