
Requirements engineering and agile software development. Software Engineering Journal, 11(3), p.183. ACRE: selecting methods for requirements acquisition. However, as was pointed out to me in the essay feedback, this also occurs in the bibliography, as seen below. For two or less authors, you will get both names (as in Maiden & Rugg above) or for 3+, it gives the first author and the et al. Mendeley’s inline citations are fairly good if you choose the Harvard method (the method employed with my university). Interviews may give oversimplified accounts of what occurs (Maiden & Rugg 1996 Paetsch et al. It has a Word-plugin which allows you to insert references and produces a bibliography for you at the end straight from Mendeley without having to format them yourself.


All-in-all, a very handy piece of student kit which I use for containing my references. You can search within papers and tag them or make notes about them for later use. Mendeley, for those who don’t know, is a handy reference organiser – it can save PDFs and sync them across devices (using an online account) so you can access your papers on any machine with an internet connection (an online database exists if you don’t want to install the application on every machine).
