Mendeley Overview
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic tool from Elsevier for Windows and macOS, used by researchers and students to organize references and citations. It lets you build a library of papers and documents, read and annotate PDFs, automatically extract citation details, and generate citations and bibliographies in many styles directly within word processors through its citation plug-in. It also syncs your library across devices and includes features for discovering research and collaborating. By streamlining how academic sources are stored, annotated, and cited, it saves significant time when writing papers. The offline installer bundles everything Mendeley needs, so installation completes without a connection. This page points to the genuine Mendeley source from Elsevier, not a third-party host.