Citation Management Tools

If a PDF is available in Mendeley, you have two options to read a paper in Mendeley:

Option 1: Double-click on the reference title in your library which will open the attached PDF in Mendeley's document reader.

Option 2: Click the green checkmark icon for the reference under the File column next to the reference.

Option 3: After clicking on the reference title, click  in the information pop-up screen.

You can read, search, highlight, and make comments on PDFs in Mendeley's PDF Reader. 

Key features in Mendeley's PDF reader:

• Select Tool: Select text to copy and paste relevant text, or to apply highlighting.
• Scroll/Pan Tool: Navigate around the document by clicking and dragging.
• Highlight Tool: Select text with the Select Tool and click to highlight. Or highlight entire sections with the Highlight rectangle.
• Adding notes: Click the "sticky note" icon and click its placement within the PDF. Add your comments. Click the icon again to read or edit your comments.
• Color options: Change the color of your highlights or comments under the Color drop-down option.

For more notetaking options, click the  icon on the top right. A pop-up panel will appear with citation details. 

Click on 'Annotations' to add general notes about this specific PDF document. You can also view all comments in a list format.

'Notebook' is a separate note page where you can collect highlights and notes from multiple PDFs, allowing you to organize thoughts across different articles. Notebook pages aren't tied to a specific reference and allow you to add highlights from many PDFs to a single page.