One of the great built-in features in Mendeley is without a doubt the citation plugin for your word processor of choice. We currently support most of popular word processors such as MS word (Mac and Windows), OpenOffice, Neo Office, and Libre Office. We’re continuously working to improve the efficiency and general user interface of this plugin because we feel it is an important component within Mendeley Desktop and your overall research workflow.
That being said, I’d like to touch on a small aspect that many Mendeley citation plugin users are probably unaware of. If you add multiple citations at the same time, the appropriate citation style is used for such situations. For example, if you were citing 3 articles and they were the 3rd, 4th and 5th citations added, they’d probably be added as follows 3-5 (if using a numeric inline citation style format like “Nature Genetics”.). However, if you went in to the document and wanted to add another reference in that bundle, it would show up as 3-5 6. That is not good.
Quick solution? Delete the citations and add all four together. Which would mean remembering which reference they were, selecting all four and adding them in again.
Better solution? Merge the citations! Just select the 3-5 and 6 citation and then go to your citation plugin options in your word processor and select Merge citations. The end result should be 3-6. No need to go track down the references again. Just select, merge. Done.
Open Mendeley Desktop and log in to your Mendeley account. When logging in, you may find the message that the local database is crashed. In this case, I assume you have to delete your local.
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- Explained how to solve the problem of 'Mendeley MS word plugin' not showing. This problem prevents Mendeley users from direct citation in MS Word.
- This is happening because Word is trying to connect to Endnote online. It's really easy to fix. Go to the Endnote menu in Word and select 'Preferences' In the box that pops up, select the Application tab; Currently, Word will have 'Endnote Online' selected. Change the selection to 'Endnote' and hit OK.
- Quickly add articles from any supported website directly into your reference library with a single click using Mendeley’s web importer. Citation Plugin. Mendeley has plug-ins for Word, LibreOffice and BibTeX. We cover thousands of citation styles.
Check out this quick 2 minute video showcasing our Word plugin:
Mendeley Word Plugin Problem Mac 2016
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