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Mendeley

Mendeley is a free reference manager and an academic social network.

It combines a desktop application (Mendeley Reference Manager) with an online application (Mendeley Web).

Mendeley is an auxiliary tool and does not substitute for the consultation of the Official APA Manual.

Create a user account

To use Mendeley, first, download the software to your personal computer and then create an account.

After you create your Mendeley user account, you can:

  • Find relevant articles for your academic work or research;
  • Extract bibliographic references from scientific databases (B-on, Google Scholar, etc.);
  • Extract bibliographic references from PDF files stored on your computer;
  • Create and manage a library of bibliographic references with different collections;
  • Up to 2 GB of storage;
  • Access these files anywhere;
  • Make annotations as you read;
  • Insert citations as you write;
  • Create automatic bibliographic references;
  • Network collaboration with other researchers.

Mendeley Cite

Mendeley Cite is a citation tool available in Microsoft Word.

This tool allows you to use Mendeley without having to install the Mendeley Reference Manager beforehand, and it is also compatible with the online versions of Microsoft Word.

To use Mendeley in Microsoft Word 365, go to References > Citations > Mendeley Cite