Reference Management Tool-

Mendeley
Shivaram BS
Sr. Tech. Officer
CSIR- National Aerospace Laboratories
Bangalore-560017
shivaram@nal.res.in
Scholarly Information Retrieval : VTU Researcher
VTU Consortia
Local Library Open Access Content
Google Scholar/Base search engine

NIE
Researcher
Why Literature/Information Management
• Common Error
– Lack of Organization
– Download & Forget
– Improper file naming
– No classification
– Downloading same item
• Hardware Issues
– Failures
– Changing Desktop systems
Research Guide

This is well written article, but where are References &

Bibliography ????
 Why References ?
• To give credit to others for their work
• To add credibility to your work by showing
that you used valid information sources
• To help show how your work is related to
previous work
• To avoid plagiarism
• To help readers to understand the context
& find further information
• For references to fulfill their functions, they
must be accurate
– Make sure that all information in the citation
(for example, author list, article title, journal
title, volume, year, pages) is accurate.
Reference / Citation Styles

APA Harvard
IEEE Vancouver
ACS system
MLA APA
Chicago

Strict
Style &
Syntax
Citation
styles
Tool for Information Management
 Reference Management Tools
• Organize, annotate and manage your references.
• Import references from online databases, library
catalogs, websites and PDFs.
• Create in-text citations and formatted bibliographies.
• Share references with other researchers.
• Work on your references anytime, anywhere.
• Available web/local versions
Popular Reference Management tools

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 Mendeley
• Free Reference management Software (Desktop version)
• Cross-Platform (Win/Mac/Linux)
• Available in various version – Desktop, Web, Mobile
• Plug-Ins for word processor (MS Word)
• Create Groups and share your personal library
• Automatically exports in popular citation format
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