Furthermore, some publishers demand to remove field code before submitting manuscript. It is due to the incompatibility word processor and citation software. It is recommended to remove the field codes before you share the document with someone who may be not familiar or not using mendeley. When field codes removed, all citations and references are saved as text. Field codes allow Mendeley to format cutation and referneces in your document. Removing Field Codes What is field codes?įield codes are some hidden coding entered into a word document by Mendeley.
If this doesn't work as in my case.īetter solution? Merge the citations! Just select the 3-5 and 6 citation and then go to your citation plugin options in your word processor and select Merge citations.
Install the free plugin for LibreOffice or MS Word to cite a document and generate a bibliography: After installing the Microsoft Word plugin you will see: You can pull citations from Mendeley Desktop or Mendeley Web. Which would mean remembering which reference they were, selecting all four and adding them in again. Quick solution? Delete the citations and add all four together. However, if you went in to the document and wanted to add another reference in that bundle, it would show up as 3-5 6. For example, if you were citing 3 articles and they were the 3rd, 4th and 5th citations added, they’d probably be added as follows 3-5 (if using a numeric inline citation style format like “Nature Genetics”.). If you add multiple citations at the same time, the appropriate citation style is used for such situations. That being said, I’d like to touch on a small aspect that many Mendeley citation plugin users are probably unaware of. We’re continuously working to improve the efficiency and general user interface of this plugin because we feel it is an important component within Mendeley Desktop and your overall research workflow. We currently support most of popular word processors such as MS word (Mac and Windows), OpenOffice, Neo Office, and Libre Office. One of the great built-in features in Mendeley is without a doubt the citation plugin for your word processor of choice.