Mendeley

Mendeley is a reference manager and bibliographic data manager with academic social network functions for scientists. The program is free of charge and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and the library can also be used through the web interface.

After installation and registration, the user gets access to a large and constantly growing catalogue of research papers, can add their own publications to a profile or add interesting works to their library. The library is synchronized through cloud storage, and 2 GB are available to the user for free. Moreover, you can create groups and work together with colleagues on a single project, or join existing groups in the network.

Mendeley can also be integrated into Microsoft Word and LibreOffice Writer through a citation plugin and used as a bibliographic data manager. You can use the program to cite publications and create lists of references. A large number of citation styles is included for this purpose. For example, it is possible to format references according to the Russian GOST R 7.0.5-2008 standard, which may be useful when preparing dissertations. Since September 2022 Mendeley Desktop can no longer be downloaded from the official site, and it has been replaced by Mendeley Reference Manager.

Mendeley enables easy organization and management of scientific publications, facilitating collaboration with colleagues and effortless citation in various styles.

The interface won't cause any difficulties, and most of the tools can be understood intuitively. Documents can be imported from PDF files, BibTeX, RIS or EndNote XML, and the built-in viewer lets you read and annotate PDFs.