Introduction

• Introducing Mendeley
• Using Mendeley Desktop on UWA Library computers
• Mendeley support at UWA
• Mendeley links & other uni lib guides

Add References

• Mendeley Web
  • Before You Begin
  • Type in from the Keyboard
  • Add PDF Document
  • Mendeley Web Importer
  • Sync with Mendeley Desktop
• Mendeley Desktop
  • Type in from the Keyboard
  • Add PDF Document
  • Import from Database
    • Web of Science
    • Scopus
    • Proquest
    • OneSearch
    • Google Scholar
  • Sync with Mendeley Web
• PDF's
  • Mendeley Desktop
  • Mendeley Web
  • Get Full Text Articles (Linking)

Add Citations to Documents

• Mac
  • Before You Begin
  • Adding Citations
  • Editing Citations
  • Changing Styles

• Windows

• • Before You Begin
  • Adding Citations
  • Editing Citations
  • Changing Styles

Sharing & Collaborating

• • What are Groups
  • Using Groups
  • How Many Groups Can I Have

Add Styles, Abbreviations, etc.

• Citation Styles
  • What are styles
  • Importing a Style into Mendeley
  • UWA Styles
  • Other Styles
• Journal Title Abbreviations
  • Journal title Abbreviation Lists
  • Adding Journal Title Abbreviations to Mendeley
  • Selecting Journal Title Abbreviations in Mendeley

Manage References

• Search
• Folders
• Backup

​Help

• Mendeley Support
• Let Us Know What You Think

Mendeley and Styles

Mendeley calls referencing styles such as APA and Vancouver Citation Styles because this describes the style in which the Mendeley software 'outputs' your references.

What style should you use?

Check with your Faculty, School, supervisor or lecturer if they have a preferred style. For more information on the various styles see the How do I reference with section of the Library's Referencing Guides web page.

Information about the different Reference styles

When you download the Mendeley program to your computer it comes with a small number of the most popular output styles. However these styles may not always output references which match the UWA approved styles detailed in the Library Referencing Guides .

In coordination with UWA Faculties, the Library has created customised UWA styles for highly used referencing styles like APA and Vancouver.

These styles can be downloaded from the table below imported into your Mendeley program..

1. Click on View>Citation Style>More Styles....
   

   

2. Click on the Get More Styles tab
3. Paste the link for the style into the Download Style box and click Download

See the box above for instructions on downloading styles into Mendeley desktop.

Mendeley supports over 6,000 different referencing styles.  A complete list of the citation styles available in Mendeley can be found at https://www.mendeley.com/citation-styles/.

Styles are stored as .csl (Citation Style Language) files and can be downloaded from the GitHub repository.

To download a style

1. Open the GitHub repository of citation styles
2. Click on the Find file button
3. Start typing the name of the style you need
4. Click on the link to the style in the list
5. Click on the Raw button
6. Copy the URL for the new page which should be displaying the XML text version of the .csl file
7. Follow the instructions in Importing a Style into Mendeley above