Free reference manager for organising literature, managing PDFs and inserting citations.
Mendeley Reference Manager is a free reference management tool from Elsevier for collecting, organising, reading and citing literature. It supports cloud sync, PDF management, library organisation and a Word citation plugin.
Use cases: literature organisation, reference management, PDF reading, inserting citations into papers
Note: Compared with Zotero, Mendeley is more platform-oriented; pay attention to the account, sync storage and privacy policy when using it.
