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Whenever I try to update my Mendeley Desktop. I receive a notification that there is a problem, because the desktop was started from a read-only location. Copy it to the Application folder on your Mac...
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Hello, I intend to reconfigure my whole PC and want to keep the links to my pdfs (I do have over 1 thousand pdfs linked to my mendeley desktop library) after the reconfiguration (the pdfs are saved on...
View ArticleThe reference doesn't show up even though everything works...
Hi there, I have a problem. When I want to put in a reference certain article doesn't show up in the word-document even though I am able to find them and select them in the Mendeley toolbar. Some...
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Hello I am doing a review of the literature and I have run several searches with different sets of keywords. I would like to save the sets of results in different libraries, with different names (as...
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I am using a 'custom' version of the AMA style updated by Joshua Cole. It worked great to sort my reference page by author name. However, I also need my inline citations to be regular script, not super...
View ArticleHow to set regularly use of "et al." to Nature citation
Hello there, i would like to know how i can change the "Nature" CSL bibliography so that it writes et al. always after the first name. Right now I have the Problem, that my bibliography is very...
View Articlemendeleydesktop_1.10.1-stable_i386 does not start on Xubuntu 13.10
See Subject. If i start it via terminal, i got following: [code] $ mendeleydesktop Unable to start Mendeley Desktop, the software may not be installed correctly. Please check that you are using the...
View Articleinfinite loop in Mendeley synchronization
Today, after several housekeeping changes in my library (which included deleting a group), Mendeley got stuck in what appears to be an infinite loop (it cannot be processing fifty thousand tasks for a...
View Articledownloaded files & file organizer
Hi, since it is not easily possible to change to the folder where pdf files are downloaded to via the web importer I heard that one could use the file organizer/copy files to..., to change the way...
View ArticleHow do I add and save a keyword or annotation to a reference?
When I have highlighted a reference in a list, I would like to add a key word or tag to help me find the reference again in the future. Author keyword allows me to add, but the word I add is not saved...
View ArticleSynchronization with Mendeley Desktop
Hello all! I have organized (300+) papers in a folder on my external HDD (e.g., E:\Mendeley). Each time I start Mendeley or make Sync, new papers (added in E:\Mendeley) are synchronized and copied to...
View ArticleI cannot insert citations in word
Hello mendeley when I try to insert citations in word I get the following message: Problem formatting citation #1 Problem updating citation: {Formatting Citation}n} You can fix this citation by...
View ArticleStep 6 in Bookmark to IPAD Does not Work
How to "paste" into line 2 of Bookmark - it does not allow me to remove current link and paste in link from directions
View ArticleChanging citation style
Hi, When I change citation style using the plugin in word, the citation\ style does not change. I can add a new reference in the new style, but the other citations in the doc remain in the old style....
View ArticleE-ink reader recomendations
I am thinking abt purchasing e-ink reader. I wander if there is any you can reccomend? Is there any e-ink reader that supports Mendeley? (As destop or that is able to access online library). If not,...
View ArticleField entries missing upon export from Mendeley to Endnote XML
Hello, when I export entries from my Mendeley library to Endnote format, there are various field entries missing, namely, among others: • the "Issue" field (i.e. journals) • the "institution" field...
View ArticleImportation with the new Web of Science interface does not work
Hi, I have been using Mendeley for half a year and I have not had any problems importing references from Web of Science. Recently, Web of Science changed its display format, and now, Mendeley does not...
View ArticleEpub ahead of print
Hi, I cannot format my citations so they appear in the bibliography as epub ahead of print. I saw another post that suggested using the CSL editor, but I don't understand where in this editor I am...
View ArticleOnly first author is shown
Hi I've imported some documents to Mendeley desktop. Although it finds the paper title and authors, but asks me to search by title. When I search by title, it just mentions first author (without et...
View ArticleFiles are not synchronized
Hello, I know that Mendeley Desktop cannot sync documents of a size greater than 50MB to the web library but, why some files that have no more than 50 MB are not synchronized ?, therefore not loaded...
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