Mendeley Cite is an add-in for MS Word that speeds up the process of referencing when writing /word-processing. It allows you to quickly and easily insert references from your Mendeley library directly into your Word document, without the need to open Mendeley Reference Manager, Mendeley Desktop, or even have either Mendeley desktop application installed.
With Mendeley Cite you can:
Mendeley Cite is available on Desktop@UCL and Desktop@UCL Anywhere, and you can install it on your own PC.
In MS Word, having installed Mendeley Cite, or using it on Desktop@UCL computers, you will see a button with the Mendeley icon on the far right of the Word toolbar ribbon in the References tab..
To open the Mendeley Cite 'add-in window', click on the button, Sign in to your Mendeley account, and you will see a window on the right of your Word doc, with three tabs: 'References'; 'Citation style' and 'More' (see Inserting & editing citations).
Tip: If you get an error message in the Mendeley Cite pane, click on the arrow to the right of the menu options and then select Reload.