Mendeley Desktop



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About Mendeley Desktop

Mendeley is a research management tool for desktop and Web. Organize your own research library. SHARE with other researchers. This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system/platform without restrictions. Mendeley Desktop 1.19.8 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.

The Mendeley Cite add-in for Word, which can be used without having Mendeley Desktop open or even installed if your library is synced to the Mendeley cloud, allows you to insert individual or multiple references and automatically create a bibliography from the citations you've inserted. Learn how to use Mendeley Desktop, Web Importer & MS Word Plugin to manage your references and citations with ease. This tutorial walks you through the proce. Mendeley Notebook helps you collate all your highlights and notes from multiple PDFs Cite seamlessly Also available: Mendeley Cite, the new citation add-in for Microsoft® Word, takes the time out of referencing.

MendeleyIs Mendeley Desktop safe to download?

We tested the file Mendeley-Desktop-1.19.8-win32.exe with 24 antivirus programs and it turned out 100% clean. It's good practice to test any downloads from the Internet with trustworthy antivirus software.

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Does Mendeley Desktop work on my version of Windows?

Older versions of Windows often have trouble running modern software and thus Mendeley Desktop may run into errors if you're running something like Windows XP. Conversely, much older software that hasn't been updated in years may run into errors while running on newer operating systems like Windows 10. You can always try running older programs in compatibility mode.

Officially supported operating systems include 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

What versions of Mendeley Desktop are available?

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The current version of Mendeley Desktop is 1.19.8 and is the latest version since we last checked. This is the full offline installer setup file for PC. This site has hosted other versions of it in the past such as 1.19.6, 1.19.5, 1.19.4, 1.19.3 and 1.19.2. At the moment, only the latest version is available.

What type of graphical file formats are supported?Mendeley importer

Mendeley Desktop supports over 3 common image formats including MPO, PLY and RAW.

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For those who are interested, here's information on LaTex and Bibtex compatibility. Sources is MIT's Zotero guide.

What is LaTeX?

LaTeX is a typesetting program that takes a plain text file with various commands in it and converts it to a formatted document based on the commands that it has been given. The source file for the document has a file extension of .tex. It is widely used at MIT for theses and other technical papers due to its prowess with mathematical and foreign characters. For more information on LaTeX, see LaTeX on Athena Basics, provided by the Athena On-Line Help system.

What is BibTeX?

BibTex is a bibliographic tool that is used with LaTeX to help organize the user's references and create a bibliography. A BibTeX user creates a bibliography file, wth a file extension of .bib, that is separate from the LaTeX source file. Each reference in the bibliography file is formatted with a certain structure and is given a 'key' by which the author can refer to it in the source file. For more information on BibTeX, see MIT IS&T's page: How do I Create Bibliographies in LaTeX.