When I start a new paper, I create a new directory in Mendeley where in insert all the necessary papers that I want to cite. However, after doing that for a number of papers, I start getting multiple entries of the same paper when I want to insert a citation in Word. That is because the same paper is included in more than one directory. And unfortunately the box for selecting the paper to cite does not provide a reference to the directory of which this particular paper is a member of. So after citing the same item in a paper multiple times, I end up getting something like
Gregor and Hevner (2013)a
Gregor and Hevner (2013)b
in my bibliography.
Is there any more elaborate way of managing the items to avoid this or do I have to merge the redundant items?
Perhaps you can try this hint(s):
https://www.mendeley.com/guides/using-citation-editor/07-merging-citations-and-adding-multiple-citations
Hi Patrick,
If you are using Mendeley desktop, press "tools" in the the top of the program and press check for duplicates. Sometimes this has happened to me when Mendeley hasn't synced the actual pdf files but has stored the metadata (authors, journal names, DOI etc.) and made a partial source. That should give you the duplicates in your library and a prompt to delete/keep/merge. If the problem is only with one source, my suggestion would be to paste the name of the source into the search bar and remove the two duplicates that mightn't have the attached pdf or has the all the correct information. Then press F5 or the sync button within mendeley desktop to sync your Mendeley library and this will remove the duplicates this way.
Kind regards,
Charlie
Sounds good. I always just insert references manually in papers because there usually aren't too many
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