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APA Citation Style 7th Ed. (other styles too)

Reference Managers to Save, Read, Annotate, and Cite research papers

Mendeley in a Nutshell

 

 

Mendeley Webhttp://www.mendeley.com/

 

Product details

Installation

Mendeley Guides

Storage

  • Free version - 2GB cloud storage
  • Institutional License - 100GB cloud storage (login while ON campus for auto access)

Saving citations / references

Mendeley Web Importer Guide

  • Web Importer
  • Add citations manually
  • Save PDFs, text files, webpages, and book/article citations from websites, Google Scholar, and Library databases

Duplicates

PDF handling

Mendeley Reference Manager Guide

  • PDFs can be saved and read from your Mendeley Library
  • PDFs can be annotated and highlighted
  • Saving PDFs with the Web Importer has been disabled in some databases, e.g. in Science Direct. Download each PDF separately and drag into your Reference Manager Library

Citation styles

Mendeley Choosing and Changing Citation Style Guide

In Text citations and Bibliographies

SIT Mendeley Cite Guide

LaTex* support

  • citations can be exported in BibTeX (*.bib) format for use with a LaTeX document

Organising

  • Library - all citations are saved into the Library which is organised into:
    • All References
    • Recently Added – in the past 30 days
    • Recently Read – in the last 30 days
    • Favorites – select the star to add a citation to your favorites
    • My Publications – auto-populated
    • Trash – citations will remain here until you empty the trash bin
  • Collections - used to organise the citations in the Library into categories
  • Search option for quick retrieval of your references
  • Filter option for authors and tags

Support

Points to note

  • Logging in with an SIT email address has caused problems in the past
  • Not optimized for iPhone or iPad
  • Android apps have been discontinued
  • Mendeley cannot read .nbib files, e.g. from PubMed. Use JabRef or BibTex to save as .ris

*LaTeX notes

LaTeX is free, open source typesetting software used to prepare scientific documents for communication and publication. Unlike conventional word processors, e.g. Microsoft Word, where what you see as you are typing or inserting is what you get, LaTeX uses source code to create complex technical text layouts and display mathematical expressions and formulas”. Word can be used to create formulas like the ones in the screenshot below, but LaTeX documents are of a higher standard when it comes to complex alignment, spacing, placement, etc.

LaTeX example formatting

 Kitora, S., Jinno, S., Toki, H., & Abe, M. (2021). Relation of Integro-Partial differential equations with delay effect based on the Maxwell equations to the Heaviside and Pocklington equations. IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 63(4), 1223-1230. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEMC.2020.3032788

Please note that Mendeley is to be used ONLY to manage papers that you have sourced for your own personal research. You may not share or upload any of these sourced papers with anyone else, or the SIT Library will have to report the infraction. If in doubt, please read the Mendeley Terms of Use https://www.mendeley.com/terms/ 

Zotero in a Nutshell

 

 

Zotero Web & Desktophttps://www.zotero.org/

 

Product details

Installation

Zotero Documentation

Storage
  • Unlimited Desktop storage (if you do not sync your Zotero account)
  • 300MB free cloud storage

Saving citations / references

Adding Items to Zotero Documentation

  • Zotero Connector
  • Add citations manually
  • Save PDFs, text files, webpages, and book/article citations from websites, Google Scholar, and Library databases

Duplicates

  • Automatically detects duplicates

PDF handling

Adding Items to Zotero Documentation

  • PDFs can be saved and read from your Zotero Library
  • PDFs can be annotated and highlighted

Citation styles

Citation Styles Documentation

In Text citations and Bibliographies

LaTex* support

  • citations can be exported in BibTeX (*.bib) format for use with a LaTeX document
  • BibTeX can also be auto-synced to automatically update the *.bib file when new citations are added

Organising

  • Library - all citations are saved into the Library (desktop) or Web Library (online) which is organised into:
    • Collections and Subcollections – used to organise the citations in the Library into categories
    • My Publications – you need to populate this collection yourself
    • Duplicate Items – desktop only
    • Unfiled Items – desktop only
    • Trash – citations will remain here until you empty the trash bin
  • Search option for quick retrieval of your references, includes tags in the search

Support

 

*LaTeX notes

LaTeX is free, open source typesetting software used to prepare scientific documents for communication and publication. Unlike conventional word processors, e.g. Microsoft Word, where what you see as you are typing or inserting is what you get, LaTeX uses source code to create complex technical text layouts and display mathematical expressions and formulas”. Word can be used to create formulas like the ones in the screenshot below, but LaTeX documents are of a higher standard when it comes to complex alignment, spacing, placement, etc.

LaTeX example formatting

 Kitora, S., Jinno, S., Toki, H., & Abe, M. (2021). Relation of Integro-Partial differential equations with delay effect based on the Maxwell equations to the Heaviside and Pocklington equations. IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 63(4), 1223-1230. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEMC.2020.3032788