Go to the Mendeley Details screen for the article, paste the number in the PMID field and click the search icon to update the record. For journals that are in PubMed, search for the article title and copy the PMID number at the end of the reference. The example below shows a citation created from a PDF import that does not have an abstract.Select an individual citation to review the details. Select the Recently Added folder to review the citation.Citations are created from the online article.They should be reviewed for accuracy and completeness.The PDF and citation will automatically be added to Mendeley when you sync. Watch Folder: Set up a Watch Folder and save PDFs to that folder as you find them.Add Folder: Import the contents of an existing file folder of PDFs.Add Files: Import an individual saved PDF or drag and drop the file into Mendeley.Connect the saved PDF to its citation in Mendeley desktop by using Add File at the bottom of the citation's Details screen.You do not want to create a new citation from the PDF. Use the Find UNC button to download and save subscription PDFs, but do not save it to the Watch Folder when you already have a citation.Note that the Web Importer will retrieve the PDF for freely available articles, but not for articles acquired through UNC subscriptions. The example below demonstrates saving two articles from PubMed's Clipboard. Display the selected citations and click the Save to Mendeley button and then click 'Save all' in the popup box.Add selected citations to a storage place in the database, for example, PubMed's Clipboard.(Or you can make selections one-by-one after the Web Importer grabs all the citations on the results page.) Search a database and select article citations to save.Install the Web Importer adding the Save to Mendeley button to your browser's bookmark toolbar.

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