• Endnote
• Research Data Management
• APA 7th Referencing
• Australian Guide to Legal Citations (AGLC)
• Harvard Referencing
• Oxford Referencing
• IEEE Referencing

Note: Many articles and guides have been written making comparisons about the main reference management tools available; Endnote, Mendeley, Zotero and Refworks:

• Ivey, C. (2018). Choosing the right citation management tool: Endnote, Mendeley, Refworks, or Zotero. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 106(3), 399-403. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2018.468
• AUT Library. (2020, Feb 28). Which reference manager?: Comparison of Endnote Mendeley and Zotero. AUT Library. https://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/c.php?g=843515&p=6028883

Mendeley offers a a free, simple plugin for Microsoft Word (Windows, Mac) or Libre Office (All platforms). The Citation Plugin allows you to quickly and easily cite materials that you’ve added to your Mendeley library - as well as generating a full bibliography of the materials you’ve referenced in the paper.

Please note, all VU staff and students must contact VU ITS on 9919 2777 to log a job to have the Mendeley Citation Plugin installed.

Victoria University staff and students now have access to Mendeley Institutional Edition.

Upgrade from free to institutional access by following the steps below:

1. Create a free account at https://www.mendeley.com using your vu.edu.au email address. If you have a personal username and password for another Elsevier product, such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal or ClinicalKey, the same login details will work here in Mendeley.
2. Upgrade to the Institutional Edition by visiting the Victoria University Mendeley Group page. You should then receive an email which confirms your account has been upgraded.
3. You will then be able to access your Institutional Edition account via https://www.mendeley.com.

Note: 

• To maintain access to the Institutional Edition you will need to re-verify your account via the Victoria University Mendeley Group page at least once every 12 months.
• If you have an existing Mendeley account using a personal email address and wish to join the Victoria UnIversity Institutional Edition: Login to your account, go to settings, change your email address to your vu.edu.au address. Follow the instructions at Step 2 above.

Benefits:

• 100 GB personal storage instead of 2 GB with the 'free account'
• 100 GB shared storage instead of 100 MB with the 'free account'
• Unlimited private groups of up to 100 collaborators instead of 5 private groups of up to 25 collaborators

For more information on Mendeley, visit the self-help guide.

1. Go to https://www.mendeley.com/reference-management/reference-manager to download Mendeley Reference Manager.

2. The web importer lets you import references, websites and documents from over 30 databases. You can find the option to install here https://www.mendeley.com/reference-management/web-importer.

3. Mendeley Cite allows you to insert references and bibliographies into your document using a citation add-in for Microsoft® Word. Go to https://www.mendeley.com/reference-management/mendeley-cite to download.