A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
Create or correct the Mendeley footnote citation in desktop Word or Word for the web, because Mendeley Cite does not list Word for Android as a supported environment.
Your screenshot shows footnote reference 55 in the text and a matching 55 at the bottom, but no citation text after it. This means the Word footnote exists; the Mendeley citation content has not been inserted into that footnote.
Correct the citation
- Save the document to OneDrive or another location accessible from a computer.
- Open it in either:
- Microsoft Word desktop with Mendeley Cite, or
- Word for the web with Mendeley Cite.
- Place the cursor in footnote 55, after its number.
- Open Mendeley Cite, choose the required source, and insert the citation using a footnote-compatible citation style. Mendeley Cite supports footnote citation styles in its supported Word environments.^1^
- Verify it according to the client:
- Desktop Word: the citation text should appear at the bottom of the page.
- Word for the web: select the superscript footnote number to display and edit the footnote area.
- Save the document, then reopen it on Android. Word for Android supports viewing footnotes and citations, but its built-in citation functionality does not support adding or updating citations.^2^
Mendeley’s published compatibility information lists Microsoft 365, Word 2016 or later, Word Online, and Word for iPad, but does not list Word for Android.^3^
If a manually entered footnote is sufficient
Word for Android can create native Word footnotes:
- Put the cursor after the relevant sentence.
- Open References.
- Select Insert Footnote.
- Enter the complete citation text.
A footnote appears only on the page containing its reference mark—not automatically on every page. An endnote instead appears at the end of the document or section.^4^
A manually entered citation is plain footnote text; it may not remain managed or automatically updateable through Mendeley Cite.
If the document came from a PDF
Correct the footnotes in the original Word document when possible. Word may treat unrecognized PDF footnotes as ordinary text during PDF-to-Word conversion and may not position them at the bottom of the page.^5^
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