One of the great built-in features in Mendeley is without a doubt the citation plugin for your word processor of choice. We currently support most of popular word processors such as MS word (Mac and Windows), OpenOffice, Neo Office, and Libre Office. We’re continuously working to improve the efficiency and general user interface of this plugin because we feel it is an important component within Mendeley Desktop and your overall research workflow.

That being said, I’d like to touch on a small aspect that many Mendeley citation plugin users are probably unaware of. If you add multiple citations at the same time, the appropriate citation style is used for such situations. For example, if you were citing 3 articles and they were the 3rd, 4th and 5th citations added, they’d probably be added as follows 3-5 (if using a numeric inline citation style format like “Nature Genetics”.). However, if you went in to the document and wanted to add another reference in that bundle, it would show up as 3-5 6. That is not good.
Quick solution? Delete the citations and add all four together. Which would mean remembering which reference they were, selecting all four and adding them in again.

Better solution? Merge the citations! Just select the 3-5 and 6 citation and then go to your citation plugin options in your word processor and select Merge citations. The end result should be 3-6. No need to go track down the references again. Just select, merge. Done.

One of the great built-in features in Mendeleyis without a doubt the citation plugin for your word processor of choice. We currently support most of popular word processors such as MS word (Mac and Windows), OpenOffice, Neo Office, and Libre Office.

• Mendeley Cite is compatible with Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Word versions 2016 and above and with the Microsoft Word app for iPad ®. If you are using an earlier version of Word, you can use the existing Mendeley Citation Plugin for Word available with Mendeley Desktop. Find out more here.
• It enables email apps, web browsers, and other apps to use add-ons that haven't been updated to support Apple silicon. If an app doesn't recognize a plug-in, extension, or other add-on, quit the app, select this setting, and try again. The above instruction works for me, I have now successfully used the Mendeley work Plugin in Mac mini M1 chip.
• The Citation Plugin enables you to cite while you write using Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. Make sure that both your Word Processor and Outlook are closed before installing the plug-in. On Mendeley desktop, open the Tools menu and click Install MS Word Plugin. Check the plugin has been installed by opening your word processor.

Check out this quick 2 minute video showcasing our Word plugin:

Here are the previous eight entries in our How-to series:

To install an in-text citation:

• Point your cursor where you want to add the citation
• Click ‘Insert or Edit Citation’ A new window will pop up

• Type in the name of the author, part of the title, or the year of the citation and Mendeley will show you a list of matches from your library.

Mendeley Mac Word Plugin Generator

• Select the article or book, and click ‘ok’ to automatically cite that text in Word

If you can’t remember the author or title of the article you’re looking for, or if you’d like to browse your library for more references, you can click ‘Go To Mendeley’ in the Citation pop-up.

This button will open up your Mendeley Desktop, with one small difference. There will now be a temporary button in the top bar that says ‘Cite’. Select your reference from the list, and click ‘Cite’ to have Mendeley insert the citation and take you back to your Word document.

Mendeley Mac Word Plugin

Please note that you can only add citations from Mendeley Desktop, not Mendeley Web. Also, The Style dropdown box will not display a bibliographic style until you have inserted your first citation.