I’ve covered this in more detail in this article, but here’s a summary with a screenshot from Word 2013. What should she do? How to combine Word documents and not lose the formatīefore you combine the documents into one big document, add a Section Break at the end of each document you want to combine. I had a question in a comment from someone who had used my method to combine several chapters of a textbook. But what if combining documents loses the formatting? Done.I’ve written about how to combine Word documents in this article. No need to go track down the references again. Which would mean remembering which reference they were, selecting all four and adding them in again.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. 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.

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