With a free web-based Personal Mendeley account, each user receives 2 GB of storage for personal documents, and 100 MB for shared web storage.

There are many inbuilt standard referencing styles, as well as the ability to search and import a custom reference style. Mendeley generates citations in much the same way as Endnote, via a plug-in installed in the word processor (MS Word, OpenOffice and LaTeX) or from the bib manager program. You can add notes for your own reference to the citation information box and share them with other users in your groups.

You can annotate and highlight full-text articles in the library, as well as cut and paste. You can create subject folders, groups and tags for articles, and share these with other users. For example, when you log into your desktop version of Mendeley, citations that were added to the online account will be imported to the desktop.

You can import citations (and some full-text articles) directly from many databases and journals, and from other bibliographic management tools, such as Endnote, Zotero and Refworks.ĭata is synced across all platforms when you log into one account it syncs all information, so data won’t be lost. It is simple to use, you can ‘drag and drop’ files into Mendeley, and the program finds the bibliographic information on the web. Mendeley is compatible with Mac and Windows.

Endnote reference manager