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If you don't have a reference manager yet then I strongly recommend that you get one. And if you don't

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have any yet then I recommend that you use Mendeley. Mendeley is a free software that you can use to

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organize your research library of research papers that you have and you can use it to easily create

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perfectly formatted citations in your research paper.

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It's completely free and I strongly recommend that you get it

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if you don't already have a reference manager.

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Okay so I want to quickly show you what Mendeley is and what it looks like.

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So this is Mendeley and as you can see here it gives you an overview of all your research papers that

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you collected.

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You can also search in them and you can also open them here and read them.

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It also has some nice features such as for example highlighting text so that you can find interesting

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passages again AND it will try to extract all the relevant information that you need later to cite this

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paper.

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So let me show you what that means.

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So if I go back to my library and I for example click here and click on copy as formatted citation then

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I can go anywhere - for example to a Word document - and I can, say, paste and there I get a perfectly formatted

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citation of that paper.

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And by the way this citation is an APA format and if you want to get a different citation style then

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that is possible.

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You can just go here on "view" and then "citation style" and then you pick whatever citation style you

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want to use in your research paper and it will automatically create a perfect reference for you in the

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chosen citation style.

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Okay so I just showed you that you can copy paste references into your paper but I don't actually recommend that.

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There is a much better way to include references into your research paper and I'm gonna show you that

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later.

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For now I just wanted to show you what Mendeley is and what it can do for you.

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And if you don't have a reference manager yet I strongly recommend that you get Mendeley.

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All right.

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I'm gonna give you the link to Mendeley and I see you in the next lecture.