Mendeley: Citation Styles

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Install new referencing styles in Mendeley

By Priya Chetty on July 30, 2014

When one downloads Mendeley on computer, it may not contain all referencing styles one might require for  research paper. This article will explain the process of installing new referencing styles.

For example, OSCOLA (Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities) is not in-built in “Mendeley Desktop”. In that case, one may follow these steps to import a new citation or referencing style.

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Mendley homescreen

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Mendley style window

Quick tip: As of Mendeley 1.7 and later, one can also create own citation style based on an existing one, more information can be found here: http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/articles/895771-getting-started-with-the-visual-csl-editor.

How to cite a source using Mendeley?

Change referencing style of your paper with ease

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Selecting the style you wish to modify

Why modify?

Modify a Mendeley style if:

• Mendeley does not have your style - first see if it's available in View > Citation Style > More Styles... > Get More Styles > Download
• The style that Mendeley does have is a little different to the version your unit or journal requires.

Selecting the style you wish to modify

1. In the More Styles... box, select the style you wish to edit, eg American Psychological Association 6th edition. Tip: Find a style to modify that is as close to the style you need to use as possible.

2. Right-click on the style and select Edit Style

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3. This will open the Visual CSL Editor in a web page in your browser. You may need to login to your Mendeley account if you are not already logged into Mendeley Web. Make sure to change the name of this style to something else by choosing 'Save Style As' under the Style dropdown on the top left-hand side of the screen. This is so you won't lose the original style.

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Modify in-text citations

1. To modify your in-text citation style, first click on the Inline Citations heading on the left-hand menu. This will allow you to make global formatting changes to in-text citations only

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2. To make changes to the layout of your in-text citations, click Layout on the left-hand menu, under Inline Citations OR click on an element of the in-text citation in the Example Citations

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3. From here you can make changes to the text formatting, such as bold/italics/capitalisation, or go further to set up more detailed changes such as text case, delimiters etc. There are a lot of fields for specific elements and conditional variables, and it can get quite complex, so make sure you are in the section you want to make the changes to. Tip: Keep an eye on the example citations to see if your changes are being reflected correctly.

4. Click the Style menu on the top left-hand corner and click Save Style to save your changes.

Modify bibliography

1. To modify your bibliography style, first click on the Bibliography heading on the left-hand menu. This will allow you to make global formatting changes to the bibliography only eg choose an indent or set line spacing

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2. To make changes to the layout of your bibliography, click Layout on the left-hand menu, under Bibliography OR click on an element of the bibliography citation in the Example Citations

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3. From here you can make changes to the text formatting, such as bold/italics/capitalisation, or go further to set up more detailed changes such as text case, delimiters etc. There are a lot of fields for specific elements and conditional variables, and it can get quite complex, so make sure you are in the section you want to make the changes to. Tip: Keep an eye on the example citations to see if your changes are being reflected correctly.

4. Click the Style menu on the top left-hand corner and click Save Style to save your changes.

Saving & using your modified style

Save your modifications by clicking the Style menu and selecting Save Style As. Choose a new style ID for your style if you have not done so already. You should get a message, highlighted in yellow, at the top of the screen that contains the URL to your new style.

To use your new style:

1. Copy the URL before you close the browser window

2. Go to View > Citation Style > More Styles... > Get More Styles in Mendeley Desktop

3. Paste the URL into the Download Style box and click Download. Your new style should be available and selected for use. It will be named with the original style name + your Mendeley user name, NOT the style ID you saved it as.

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Support for the Visual CSL editor

Mendeley has a guide for using the Visual CSL editor on their website. See the link to it below for more examples of how to modify styles using the editor.

There are more advanced features, such as editing at the code level, which will not be discussed in either of our guides, but feel free to explore them if you are comfortable with your skill level.

• Mendeley CSL editor guide
• Using the Citation Style Editor with Mendeley DesktopThis is another useful and in-depth guide to editing citation styles, put together by a Mendeley user on GitHub.

Global formatting options

The main modifications to your style can be made by selecting Global Formatting Options from the top of the left-hand menu.

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Here you can change:

Class: Do you want in-text or note (footnote/endnote) style in-text citations?

Name form: Set the name form as short (surname only) or long (surname with initial)

Et al use: Set the minimum number of names needed to activate et al abbreviation

Page range format: How should the page numbers display? eg 123-25; 123-25; 123-5

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https://libguides.mq.edu.au/c.php?g=826444&p=5900255

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Dear Muhammad Kamran, I wish these links help you.

EndNote offers great flexibility in context of editing reference styles. Why to go with Medley if EndNote is one fit for all?

To access reference styles for particular journals for Mendeley, try this address:

https://open.mendeley.com/use-citation-style/european-journal-of-pharmaceutics-and-biopharmaceutics

You can edit the journal name in the address link and check if its available.

Attaching another link here: https://www.zotero.org/styles

MENDELEY is free of charge while EndNote is not.

Hello,

Please find here a list of journal citation styles : https://paperpile.com/guides/citation-styles-list/

You can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs ( Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others).

Hi,

The below given link is more useful, thank u.

https://csl.mendeley.com/searchByName/

I am unable to find any matching style for Review in Aquaculture. Can anybody help me to find any matching style in mendeley....? it will be of great help

One may look at the CSL library at Mendeley at the following link and search the name of the journal and then install the same in the personal Mendeley libarary. There are however, other means to search styles as well. It has worked for me and I believe should work for you too. Check it out.

https://csl.mendeley.com/searchByName/

Thanks.

Its included in Mendeley

From Visual Editor in Mendeley

https://csl.mendeley.com/visualEditor/

Select Style then upload the attached file

For more information see:

https://github.com/theinem/MDPI-Alternative-Style-for-Zotero-Mendeley/tree/11917fea733799c1ee72487ddc27b95663752804

There are specific styles we can follow...there is a option where we can create our own reference style.

Yes you can. Here are two video tutorials covering each and every point of mendeley from literature management to reference management. Your query is covered in the second part of this video Literature Management - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CyobskxTL8 Reference Management - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kEiK0hSlsA&t=235s

I also couldn't find the format for "Reviews in Aquaculture" ready to use. However, the journal allows submission in any format, which facilitates the initial handling of the paper.

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Step 2: File Upload

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In order to improve the author experience, this journal has adopted a Free Format approach, whereby we minimise any formatting needed for submission. Please ensure you upload an editable text file (not a PDF) and figures in the highest resolution available.

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Ha yes you can download. Mendeley covers most of the journal reference style format

Simply download CSL file for the reference style, go in setting>more styles> drag and drop the CSL here,..

my real experience with Manuscript Lab, they receive money, but they do not do the work.

Manuscript Lab

Hope Manuscript Lab can reply here

Thank you all, great help is sought from the discussion in my caase

You can easily download the required style from the Mendeley CSL library and import it to Mendeley.

yes u can download of required style .

I think mendMendeleyeley support most of the referencing styles. All you need is to download the RIS file from the website then open it using Mendeley. Use the MS-Word plugin of Mendeley to change to your desired style

If there have be an specific reference style of the journal in the the Mendely reference database, the journal is usually loaded the respective link in the author guidance.

I need the csl file for international journal of materials research in mendeley. could anyone help me

how can i import a csl file into mendeley?

Thanks, this really worked Anand Ranjan

Many thanks, finally it works Anand Ranjan

Yes, you can download reference style of any journal for Mendeley.