Keti Tsomaia Whenever any plugin disappears, you can go to Microsoft office file--> Options--> Add-ins--> You will find that mendeley plugin is disabled. Enable it, It will appear in insert citation references

once on you followed the path, on plugin pop-up button you will find a drop down menu age plugins (shown as step one in picture)-->select the "action" in drop down and click go, it will open all disabled plugins you can just check in and enable the disabled plugins

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Dear All, All those who are facing this problem, I found the reason why mendeley plugin disappeared in my word and how to resolve it. I hope in future, the researcher will found this useful.

1-Whenever any plugin disappears, you can go to Microsoft office file--> Options--> Plugins--> You will find that plugin is disabled. Enable it, It will appear in references.

2-Secondly why this happens. In my case I installed MS office 365 and Office 2016 in the same system which auto disabled the mendeley. However whatever is the reason just follow point-one it will appear again. No need to uninstall and install again

Hello dear all! Could you please tell me how can i enable disabled Mendeley Plug-in ?

Thank you!

Keti Tsomaia Whenever any plugin disappears, you can go to Microsoft office file--> Options--> Add-ins--> You will find that mendeley plugin is disabled. Enable it, It will appear in insert citation references

once on you followed the path, on plugin pop-up button you will find a drop down menu age plugins (shown as step one in picture)-->select the "action" in drop down and click go, it will open all disabled plugins you can just check in and enable the disabled plugins

still unable to use mendeley, please attend my course on mendeley: shorturl.at/tIWZ0

Muhammad Farooq Done. Great. Thank you so much for your help!

Muhammad Farooq

hello muhammad, i am using mendeley to cite reference list in word but suddently the reference list disappeared despite numbering is continued for new citations but no list at the end of the file

thanks in advance

Hi

I've got this problem too and I fix it by the instruction of Mendeley help center. Remove and reinstall the MS Word plugin from mendeley. If it doesn't work reinstall the latest upgrade of mendeley. it will be OK definitely.

Best regards

Thank you Muhammad Farooq !

For me to get it working I had to select "template' instead of 'actions' in your Step 2. Also, I had to then remove the template path (keep empty) and check the box for the Mendeley template below.

Btw, the usual path for the template seems to be C:\Users\Frieder\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

my template file is called Mendeley-1.19.3.dotm

Dear Muhammad thank you SO much! In fact, my Mendeley plugin was not activated. It was really helpful.

Thank you! Two hours of lost time before I stumbled on your solution - who knows how long I would have blundered on for if you hadn't posted it!

Thanks... It worked out perfectly

Thank you. This keeps happening every couple of days. I always forget what to do. I need to just bookmark this page for the future!!

Samantha Summer Francisca Abaya Katrina Cockburn Daniel Zuleta Thank you so much for your kind words. I am happy to see the question & answers helped you. I wish you good luck in your research.

Thank you Muhammad Farooq. Your guide solved the problem for me. God bless you.

I have a similar problem but I have the Mendeley toolbar but am missing the insert citation option. I have it on one of my documents but the one im actually using does not have the option.

Thank you for putting this up. It has been so helpful

Thank you Muhammad for you help I have the same problem

In my case the 'option' part is not activated....what to do!!

Dears, The problem I am facing is slightly different. The Mendeley plug-in is visible on the References Ribbon, but, the "Insert Citation" button is missing! This is very strange and I am unable to fix this and will appreciate if anyone may help in this regard.

good question!

Tianna Twyman Rizwan Khan remove the add-in in word (as explained above) then just add it again. It worked for me.

Amaris Dalton Thank you! IT WORKED!!!

I am back to referencing successfully and efficiently!

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Rizwan Khan Amaris Dalton Ameneh Shariati Bikramaditya Ghosh Nora Alkudaisi Aigbiremolen Alphonsus O. Moses Alhassan Joshua Tianna Twyman Daniel Zuleta Katrina Cockburn Francisca Abaya Samantha Summer

Muhammad Farooq Good job!

Thank you Rizwan Khan

Great m.farooq to make it highly workable for geting instant help... appreciated

Saeed Muhammad Thank you.

Hi guys, I have a similar problem. The "cite" button in the desktop app (not Word!) is missing. Thus, I cannot select any documents in the desktop app and cite them from there. I alraedy re-installed the app but the problem remains. Any ideas?

Patrick Lübbecke to bring the cite option on your desktop mendeley you need to go from word file to your desktop. I hope you will find this video useful. Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4IAYrrkHmY&list=PLgUqMZ786hYuh_lUnuocxKgvaOqGhsxAI&index=6

Tianna Twyman Rizwan Khan Perhaps a bit late, but for future reference. I had the same problem, the "Insert citation" button was missing. The solution was to allow macros in Word. It's trivial, but it took me an hour to think of it (after I reinstalled both citation plugin and Medeley to no effect...).

Thank you! IT WORKED!!!

I have a new laptop with Office 365, Windows 10 . . . about a 1/3 of the time I open a word document the Mendely Cite-o-Matic options are not there. I've looked at the "add-ins" and it is there and active. I've also looked at macros and they are present. Any suggestions?? Thank you.

Jeffrey Pellegrino, there are many valuable hints in this post:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_add_Mendeley_plugin_into_word

Hi,

On office 2019, Mendeley suddenly stop adding citations. I click on the insert citation, then choose any random references and nothing appears in the word. Macros and add-in are active and working. Any suggestions?

Hi..

Muhammad Farooq or can anyone else please help me resolve the similar issue!! Even after clicking it as 'GO' the insert citation icon or mendeley is not popping in my word file..

To Mohammad Bagher Erfanian & Prajakta Rahate : Try some suggestions from this post: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_add_Mendeley_plugin_into_word

Good luck!

Anton Vrdoljak Thanks, it is not working for me.

Anton Vrdoljak Thanks a lot, but it is still showing errors

To Mohammad Bagher Erfanian & Prajakta Rahate : Many colleagues posted here, as well as in another post (link is above), that they solved their problems. So, it seems that you both having some strange issue. Keep searching for a solution. Good luck!

Anton Vrdoljak I've changed my citation manager.

Thanks.

To Mohammad Bagher Erfanian : Very good solution!

thanks Mohammad. it has worked. i had wasted about 3 hours trying to solve this.

Reinstalled again and do this with a new version of word

Thank you very much Mr.Farooq. My Mendeley icon has been restored in word. I can now breath deep. God bless

Go to file

options

add ins

under (manage) choose word add-ins

tick mendeley

click add

I just uninstalled MS Word Plugin from Mendeley (Tools -> uninstall MS Word Plugin) and installed it again (from the same place), and immediately it has been restored in Word.

thanks

In my case, the plugin is not available in the folder where it should be. The citation tool disappeared from MS Word out of the blue some days ago. I tried some typical solutions such as uninstalling the plugin and installing again. Then I tried your solution and realised that the plugin is not available in the package at all. I've tried reinstalling Mendeley again, but the plugin never comes with the package in the folder wordPlugin. Has anyone gone through this recently?

John Marques dos Santos did u able to solve this issue. im having the same problem as yours where the plugin is not available in the folder.

Unfortunately not yet M. Haniff Junos.

Great!! it helped me a lot!

I faced this problem, and now it is solved by following your instruction. Thank you very much, dear Farooq.

even if u r not able to see the insert citation option in the toolbar u can click shift+M , you will be able to cite

The Mendeley Icon is now available in the Word reference window but the Mendeley Citation is not available

Please follow the procedure

Microsoft Office Words --> Home --> Option --> Add-ins --> Words Add-ins (Manage) --> Check Mendeley 1.19.4.dotm --> Ok --> Check Reference tab

Please Follow the video link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWSE3Jh7tbU

Works fine. Thank you! Muhammad Farooq

Anyone experiencing this in MS Word for Mac? Like so many of you, my Mendeley add-in just disappeared today.

Thank you so much Anirban Mahata..finally got it.

Muhammad Farooq did u able to solve this issue ? thanks

Muhammad Farooq Thank you , work fine

Muhammad Farooq thanks a lot. very helpful!

my insert citation option disappeared i had tried multiple time reinstalling office and mendely but didnt worked , can anyone help me please

thank you for help

Thank you!

It works.

I have a MAC and I installed Word on it.

My problem is: if I press on the insert, the MENDELEY CITATION EDITOR is not appearing during using Word. By chance, I immediately went to Mendeley Desktop and it was there for seconds and then it disappeared completely. I don't know how to manage that the Mendeley Citation Editor appear during using word. I really would need a bit support

Thanks a lot @Muhammad Farooq!

This helped

Ahmad Hassan, THANK YOU!!!! You just saved a life:)

you can go to open word page and go to File, then select options and go to Add-ins just in the last you see "manage" research Mendeley and do it enable. lastly, close the file and open it again. done!!

Hi，everyone, I tried everything, still does not work, i can insert but no reference list. for me Add-ins like Ahmad Hassan showed. I also check this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWSE3Jh7tb

For me, it is not in word Add-ins, it is tempelate, I checked it, it is checked. But still there is no reference list, can anyone help me? Thank you very much.

did you solve your problems? Ahmad Hassan Trisy Sy

Do you have some idea about this situation? Muhammad Farooq

Thank you all very much. Looking forward to your response.

I really could use your help.

I did some tests according to all the mentioned methods, i can not solve my problem. For me, inserting reference is ok, the text is also ok, if you refresh it, everything will be changed. Just in the end, no reference list. It is so strange. And if I work with previous word file that has reference list, when i change something, or insert new reference, the reference list also changes. Everything is ok. but If I delete this reference list, it will never appear again. I am so frustrated

Please try this it worked for me.

Go to Mendeley (or Mendeley desktop) -> Tools -> uninstall MS word plugin -> Install MS word plugin.

Confirm by opening a word document, it should appear if not disabled in word (Go to options, Check 'Add-ins' )

Hope it helps.

Thanks

It works.. thanks

I had a similar problem but after going through the responses here, I was able to correct it. Thank you so much Mohammed Farroq.

Muhammad Farooq Thank you so much. I was struggling so much to solve it. Finally it worked. Thanks again.

Thank you a lot!! Muhammad Farooq

Thank you Debjani Ghosh

For me, I tried. It does not work.

thanks Debjani Ghosh . It worked for me.

Many thanks

Thanks, @Debjani Ghosh. It worked for me.

Here are two video tutorials covering each and every point of mendeley from literature management to reference management Literature Management - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CyobskxTL8 Reference Management - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kEiK0hSlsA&t=235s

Thank you so much for sharing, it worked

You just saved my day Muhammad-thank you so much, my citation came back after enabling Mendeley.

Muhammad thank you very much, you made my day !

The above-mntioned add-in options didn't work for me.

Go to Mendeley standalone, click tools uninstall world plugins then install world plugins.

Problem solved. Make sure you close your word documents while doing this.

Insert citation option disabled for Mendeley in word 2016. Please any one resolve the issue.

Look at this picture. Just install MS Word plugin

A little tweak in the method of Muhammad worked for me.

After selecting Mendeley in the "Inactive Application Add-ins" (File-Options-Add-ins), select "Word Add-ins" in the dropdown list (instead of "Actions") then "Go".

In the new screen "Templates and Add-ins", tick Mendeley (Mendeley-1.19.4.dotm in my version) under "Global templates and add-ins" then "OK".