I am using Mendeley. I have a folder with pdf article files and Mendeley uses their metadata to extract citation information (Authors, name, journal title,…).
However, it usually makes mistakes and I have to overwrite the information manually. I would like to know if there is a way to link the bibtext info from the article so the citation information be correct.
Best Answer
Unfortunately, it seems that Mendeley doesn't have a way yet to link a bibtex file to an existing PDF, it only do the opposite, linking a PDF to an existing bibtex file. So it is always better if you first import the bibtex then upload your PDF.
Nevertheless, I tried uploading the bibtex to Mendeley (although I already have the PDF imported and wrongly metadata'ed) so I ended up with two references for the same article, then select (Ctrl+Click) both files in the Central library list, Right-click and choose "Merge Documents", and it worked for me, I've got the old PDF file with the correct imported bibtex info.
The other good think about merging is, it is gonna merge the new file (bibtex) into the old one (PDF), not the opposite, so you don't have to worry if you have already written and referenced in a word document, and corrected the metadata using "merging" later.