et-al-use-first which determines how many authors are listed before et al.E.g., it's set to 8 for AGU which means "start using et al for 8 or more authors". Visit and click on Create account in the top-right corner or Create a free account in the middle left. et-al-min which determines the number of authors at which et al kicks in. Create an account online to access the library on your Mendeley Reference Manager desktop application and via your online account, following the steps below: 1.Select your style or click on More Styles. From the Mendeley Desktop Toolbar, select View > Citation Style.
There, you would click on "Bibliography" on the left and adjust the et al settings. How to Create a Bibliography First select your citation style: From the Mendeley Desktop Toolbar, select View > Citation Style. If you do want to edit et al settings in a CSL style by yourself for used in Mendeley, the easiest way is probably Mendeley's CSL Editor. The style that actually updates, btw., is American Geophysical Union, all their journals (such as GRL) just point to that style I have just fixed this in the upstream repository from which Mendeley draws its styles and it should be available for updating within 48hs in Mendeley.
However, the elipsis between the 6th and the last author is not supposed to be there, a deviation from APA rules by the AGU style. for 8 or more authors is correct in the new style Choosing this option in the word processor will not necessarily change the style in your Mendeley Desktop version Library.Note that the AGU, which publishes GRL, has recently changed its citation format to APA style as described here: What you have pasted above is an APA-style citation. References can also be added from groups. Click the Insert Citation button and search for references by author, title, or year from your library. Select the References tab and locate the Mendeley Cite-O-Matic options.
Change bibliographic styles with "Choose Citation Styles" in the Mendeley toolbar. To insert a citation using Microsoft Word: Place you cursor exactly where the citation will be used.Your bibliography will appear, and new citations will be added automatically. At the end of your paper, click "Insert Bibliography".To add a citation while writing, just click on "Insert Citation" and a pop-up box will appear offering the opportunity to search for your citation by author, title or year in your Library or your Groups, or to go to Mendeley directly.In Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac, the Mendeley text menu will be found by clicking on the script menu.In MS Word 20, the Mendeley plug-in may be found in the Word "References" ribbon.Select the Mendeley toolbar, and you should find buttons "Insert Citation", "Insert Bibliography", etc.
With each in-text citation you add, Mendeley will automatically create the full citation in the bibliography according to the style you select in Word. Mendeley Cite will style all of your citations and bibliography according to the citation style you have selected. Select the 'More' menu and select the ‘Insert Bibliography’ button in the drop down menu. In Windows machines (some versions MS Word), you should find the Mendeley toolbar in View > Toolbars in the word processor menu. Tips for Your Bibliography: Your bibliography will not appear until you place your cursor where you want it to appear and then click Insert Bibliography in the Word ribbon. Position the cursor where you want the bibliography to appear in your document and go to the Mendeley Cite add-in window.
You may have to close and reopen Word for the install to be completed. Open the Desktop, then click on Tools, then Install MS Word Plugin.
In the drop down menu, click on the appropriate line to "Install MS Word/LibreOffice Plugin"Once you download and install Mendeley Desktop to a computer, you can install the Microsoft Word Plugin. Mendeley offers word processing plug-ins for Microsoft Word and LibreOffice.To install the plug-ins, go to the Tools menu on the Mendeley Desktop version.