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- Joined: Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:29 pm
- Location: Maun Botswana
I have started with Mendeley, and although it is impressively efficient at some things it is quite poor at others:
- when importing titles it ignores italics, which is a problem for biological species names. While it is possible to edit the titles, getting italics requires the "<i>" "</i>" commands, and it is not possible to get any special characters except by typing them into word and then copy and pasting. Edits to titles do not always save.
- Journal abbreviations require a workaround that involves loading a text file of names and abbreviations. As far as I can see it is stuck with one abbreviation style.
- the bibliography in a manuscript ignores the formatting of the rest of the manuscript, and every time it is updated all the formatting (i.e. line spacing) changes back to the Mendeley version.
- the basic version is free, but with just over 200 references loaded I have used up more than a third of my space.
- changes have a nasty habit of sometimes not saving
What are other people using ? - what are the good and bad points ?
Thanks
Peter
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