A comparison showed that Zotero and Mendeley are the most suitable managers. It was also found that several mistakes were caused by technical limitations of the reference managers, while other mistakes originated due to incorrect setting of the citation styles. You can remove URLs from a bibliography by opening MD then View >Citation Style >More Styles, Include URLs. All programs had problems especially with generating the URL and the date of access in the reference to online documents. With regard to the individual types of resources, the lowest number of mistakes was shown by Zotero, while RefWorks had the greatest number of mistakes. The largest number of mistakes for 9 journals was found in references generated by EndNote and in the other 4 journals the largest number of mistakes was detected in RefWorks references. The style used will be the one currently in use under the. Right click and select copy as and choose formatted citation. There, you would click on 'Bibliography' on the left and adjust the et al settings. If you do want to edit et al settings in a CSL style by yourself for used in Mendeley, the easiest way is probably Mendeley's CSL Editor.
You may select more than one citation at a time. The style that actually updates, btw., is American Geophysical Union, all their journals (such as GRL) just point to that style. The fewest mistakes were detected in references generated by Zotero for 11 journals and the NLM style, while the second fewest number of mistakes was found in Mendeley. You can copy any citation directly from Mendeley for pasting into email or text documents. We recommend you avoid taking any of the above steps to ensure your document is not corrupted and we also recommend always keeping a backed up previous version of your documents, especially while Mendeley Cite is still in a beta phase.Bibliographical references to online and printed articles, books, contributions to edited books and web resources generated by EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks and Zotero were compared with manually written references according to the citation instructions in 15 biomedical journals and the NLM citation style. The remove 'Task Pane Add-Ins' data option will remove all of the Mendeley metadata and will break Mendeley Cite. Here there are a number of different categories of data embedded within the Word file that could contain personal information, giving the user the option to strip any/all of the data. Using Word for Windows’ own privacy feature, which allows the user to 'Inspect Document'.Uploading or sharing the document through a third-party system that automatically removes embedded metadata as a user-privacy feature.Saving/converting the document to another file format that does not support embedded Office settings metadata and then opening the new file again in Word (even if you then convert it back to DOCX, the metadata will still be gone.).This issue can be caused by a number of reasons: When this data is removed, you'll still see your in-line citations, however Mendeley will no longer have an index record that they exist and will not recognize previously made citations. Within this document metadata, Mendeley Cite stores the required data to recognize and build out all of the citations used within the bibliography. This happens due to document metadata being deleted from the document itself.
Some users are experiencing issues where their document that contains a number of citations will no longer be able to create a bibliography from the existing citations within the document.
Please contact us using one of the contact options at the bottom of this page if this still occurs for you.
Since the release of the stable version of Mendeley Cite, this problem has been fixed and should no longer be happening to documents made after this time.