Reference Manager tools are applications used by research scholars all over the world to help automate the extremely tiresome job of managing citations for their thesis work. Mendeley is a popular reference manager designed by Elsevier, the medical publisher giant. It is easy to work with and versatile.
A variant of Vancouver citation style which uses superscript, is used by the National Board of Examinations for their DNB course thesis work. When I started working on my thesis, I found that my seniors had no clue that citation management was supposed to be painless and automated. I can’t imagine how they went through managing edits to about a hundred citations manually. One insertion in between and you’d have to do all your work again. Not to mention the obvious human errors that come from trying to create a citation on your own. That’s a job the computers do extremely well, so best to leave that to them.
First install Mendeley Desktop, and make sure the Word plugin works.
Open Mendeley.
Under View > Citation Styles>More styles
>Download style:
Enter: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/droidzone/vancouver-superscript-dnb/master/vancouver-superscript-joel-2.csl
and click on Download, and then Done.
It will ask for a name. Enter “Vancouver-Superscript”.
I created this citation style based on a modification of the standard Vancouver style, to conform to the requirements of the DNB examinations prescribed by the National Board of Examinations (NBE). You may freely use it. If it helped you, let me know by a comment, tweet or a facebook post.
Joel G Mathew, known in tech circles by the pseudonym Droidzone, is an opensource and programming enthusiast.
He is a full stack developer, whose favorite languages are currently Python and Vue.js. He is also fluent in Javascript, Flutter/Dart, Perl, PHP, SQL, C and bash shell scripting. He loves Linux, and can often be found tinkering with linux kernel code, and source code for GNU applications. He used to be an active developer on XDA forums, and his tinkered ROMS used to be very popular in the early 2000s.
His favorite pastime is grappling with GNU compilers, discovering newer Linux secrets, writing scripts, hacking roms, and programs (nothing illegal), reading, blogging. and testing out the latest gadgets.
When away from the tech world, Dr Joel G. Mathew is a practising ENT Surgeon, busy with surgeries and clinical practise.