Manage Bibliography and Citation in Linux with Mendeley. This will explain how to install Mendeley Desktop in Linux, review Mendeley Desktop and how to create bibliography using Mendeley Desktop with LibreOffice Writer.
Manage Bibliography and Citation in Linux with Mendeley
Mendeley is a Linux application which can create fererence or bibloigraphy easily collaborated with LibreOffice.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device because Mendeley can be installed on Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, even you can use it online.
As a free reference manager, Mendeley can save time managing PDFs, instantly share thoughts on papers with colleagues and automatically back up and sync your files between different computers or device.
Review Mendeley Desktop – Reference Manager for Linux
Mendeley have citation styles for thousands of journals. Quickly search and select your citation style from a rapidly growing community managed database, or create new styles with the new CSL Editor.
Mendeley Create bibliographies instantly. Cite seamlessly without leaving Word. Format your citations and bibliography according to your chosen style.
Mendeley Provides Flexible formatting. Hanging indents, the use of “Ibid.”, author disambiguation. Mendeley looks after the details of creating a bibliography so you can focus on writing.
Mendeley Collaborate on bibliographies. Share bibliographies with your colleagues through a private group. Any member can add or edit any cited references.
How to Install Mendeley Desktop in Linux
For Linux Mint and Ubuntu users, please follow these steps to install the newest Mendeley Desktop:
- Visit download site of Mendeley Desktop for Linux here
- Select “Mendeley Desktop for Ubuntu”, then choose the 32bit or 64 bit depend on your computer
- You will get Mendeley installer: a deb file, double click the file and click “Install Package”
- Wait until installation complete.
How to install Mendeley using Terminal ? The second method, you should type these Linux command on your Terminal:
sudo apt-get install mendeleydesktop
Now you can use Mendeley Desktop by opening it: Start/Menu >> Education >> Mendeley Desktop
How to Uninstall Mendeley Desktop in Linux
For a reason you want to uninstall or remove Mendeley Desktop from your computer, you can uninstall it by:
If you install Mendeley Desktop from method 1 above, then you can double click the Mendeley installer and click “Remove package”. Done!
If you install Mendeley from second method above or using Terminal, you can uninstall Mendeley in Linux by typing
sudo apt-get remove mendeleydesktop