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I’ve just started my PhD journey this February. As other new students might feel, I’m excited yet nervous at the same time: will I survive? is this the best lab for me? what would I be after this journey? I’m also nervous as it’s almost 2 years since I left formal school. But, here I am trying to prepare this journey as best as I can.

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Putting reference in Scientific Manuscript or other document created in MS Word is a night mare. Sorry, Let me correct it, “Putting reference in Scientific Manuscript or other document created in MS Word is a night mare to only those who are ignorant” But it you are those who have similar night mare, then you have come at the right place.

Process of inserting references starts with importingfields like title, author, journal/site and many other things. Then comes referring at appropriate place in Word document. Most of the times, before making final document we have to change/modify/delete text and associated reference. In such case, managing reference numbering etc becomes even more cumbersome, time consuming and boring task. And finally coming to making list of reference or bibliography. If all the process are done manually in Ms Word then becomes nightmare.

It is seen that average researcher spend up to 2 to 3 days of time putting, updating and modifying references in typical journal paper.  This time could be greatly reduced to around 30-45 min if done by using smartly.  For thesis or dissertation this time generally adds up to 5-6 days also.

Ms Word has some in-build feature to import, manage and make bibliography which makes some of the task in entire process of inserting references easy. But this is just the half way. There is lot of external reference manager like Refworks, Endnore, Citavi, Zotero etc. available making the overall process of importing, searching in reference, referring and making bibliography easy. Some of the are free while other are paid. Features and ease offer by these software also vary.

So which one to use and which one offer the best features and are most user friendly among the free reference manager?

After making lot of research and comparing various reference managers I finally narrowed down to Mendeley and have been using since then and never changed looked at any other reference manager.

Mendeley

Mendeley is a free and one of the referencing manager and social network that helps you organize research, collaborate online and discover new research. One can sign up for a Mendeley account online and install the Mendeley Desktop Tool in your computer. They also have mendeley to import content from web directly (like http://www.sciencedirect.com etc), by using a web plugin. You can import papers into Mendeley library from your hard drive by simply dragging and dropping files. You can also import reference list from other reference managers or by searching various web databases for papers through Mendeley Literature Search.  Mendeley desktop will display a PDF icon next to the paper if the full text is available. You can search annotate and add notes to PDF documents. You can sync your libraries to the cloud to access them anywhere. Mendeley Writing Addins are available for MS Word and LibreOffice which enables you to insert references into your article and generate a bibliography list..

If you love reading you can please go ahead and for those who like to see all the features of Mendeley software in actual practice can click on this (->) link Features of best free reference manager | reference software for importing reference &tracking references and citation tool & auto generate reference in Word -2018

Mendeley desktop reference generator can generate apa citation, mla citation etc with ease of just 1 click. Reference for research paper, thesis, dissertation, or scientific document can be generated using Mendeley. It is best tool to auto generate referencing for tracking references for scientific manuscript Reference generator or bibliography maker. Citation generator or bibliography generator can make apa bibliography, mla bibliography and in many other format. It is better than citation machine, jabref, zotero, endnote, refworks or other reference manager or citation tool or citation manager software.

Mendeley software is must for researcher before writing thesis, dissertation or research paper.

If you are wondering how to refer or how to cite references efficiently than just watch this video on best referencing software, reference manager, citation tool, bibliography generator and reference importer from website and offline local document.

Referring document or article or journal, tracking changes in references and creating bibliography at the end in MS Word used to be quite tedious and cumbersome. However now it is quite easy and can be done quickly with few clicks in your journal paper/report/thesis. No need to type Paper title, Author name, journal name, date etc for document which you want to refer.

Mendeley is the best software or tool that you can use to import paper through web/file, and gets integrated with MS Word quite easily and that too free of cost,

For other important method for writing thesis dissertation , research paper are

Most people will say that you need to learn LaTeX to make good thesis however I completely disagree with that statement. Now a days MS Word has almost all the features and infact more than what LaTeX provides. Moreover you need to learn LaTeX which is time consuming task if you are new to it.

These method/ shortcut will definitely help you to write Thesis in most efficient way and in least time. My friend didn’t listen to me and had to pay price in terms of time and effort required for regular editing which could have been done automatically in word like changing figures no/referred figure, bibliography, typing equation, making table of content and all others things that could be automated. This video technique will help you not only now but in your future carrier and I bet you will save lot of time (days) by doing things intelligently.

Ms Word don’t have official LaTeX suport, but you can do almost 99% of what LaTeX can do and much more that LaTeX cannot do. If you dont believe then please see content below

1.) LaTeX has heading (h1, h2, ….) this you can do in word and they too have heading and can be customized. For more details please click on this link ->  LaTeX like heading in Ms Word: Autoformat text in just 1 click using styles feature of Ms Word 2007/2010/2013/2016/2017.

2.) Numbering figures, table and equations with automatic numbering and further auto updation like LaTeX. For more details please click on this link ->  Automatic numbering of Figure | Table | Equation with auto update feature on adding/deleting new Figure | Table | Equation with just 1 click

3.) Typing Equation in MS Word: For more details please click on this link -> (Complete guide in shortcut for writing|typing equation in Ms Word. and Writing equation in Ms Word like LaTeX | A short introduction)

      a) Greek symbols: Shortcut for typing greek symbols in like LaTeX in Ms Word (Complete Guide)

         b) Subscript and super script: For more details please click on this link -> Shortcut for typing subscript and superscript in Equation similar to LaTeX in Ms Word (Complete Guide)

       c) Accents in word:  For more details please click on this link -> Shortcut for typing accents like bar, vector, hat etc in Equation – Ms Word (Complete Guide)

Overall report/paper writing similar to LaTeX (in terms of easy, fast and simple) see Automated formatting in Ms Word document for Journals, Papers, Magazine etc

Anyone know of a good reference manager that can interface with Apple Pages?

I’ve only worked with this cloud app for a few days now, and not even very hardcore (like searching around for a paper or something), but I’d already tentatively endorse it over Mendeley (as long as you’re able to afford $2.99/month after a 30 days trial period). It seems much faster, easier to use, the Chrome extension is pretty straightforward. I can’t really describe it, but it feels very right to use it, and, even though I’m not too invested into the whole Google infrastructure right now, Paperpile’s integration within that is pretty well done.

Easily organize your papers, read & annotate your PDFs, collaborate in private or open groups, and securely access your research from everywhere.

Mendeley is a reference manager! Like others of its type, you can organize pdf.'s, articles, citations, and many other files with it which is useful when you need to write papers!

There are other reference managers out there, such as Zotero and Docear, but Mendeley was recently brought to my attention as it does have some social media components as well.

Here's a good article on comparing features between Mendeley, Zotero, and Docear: http://www.docear.org/2014/01/15/comprehensive-comparison-of-reference-managers-mendeley-vs-zotero-vs-docear/#summary

I would like to change the path to a referenced image (jpg) in a version 2008 drawing. How do I do that without deleting it and re-inserting it?

Helpful Member! BrianL (Mechanical)

30 Jan 08 19:11