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Finished Paper

Write & Cite Sources

       Citavi Supports the
       Entire Research Process

Organize Knowledge

Customize Citavi
Work in a Team
Plan Tasks

Evaluate Content

Integrate PDFs

Manage References

Search

New Project

Work Efficiently

Intuitive Design

Navigation on the left, the editing pane in the
middle, preview and Quick Help on the right.

Preview

Use the preview to read, view, and evaluate PDFs, Web pages, images, etc. directly in Citavi.

Quick Help

Context-sensitive Quick Help lends a hand when you’re stuck.

The Knowledge Manager is extraordinary ...
Thank you for creating this world class software,
for making it available in English, and for
offering it on such generous terms.
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Search the World

Explore Over Resources

Citavi provides you access to world-class databases and library catalogs. You can even use each online resource‘s specific search options — a feature exclusive to Citavi.

Search databases from major information providers (EBSCO, Ovid, Pro­Quest, Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, etc.); in WorldCat, the world’s largest online catalog; in university, national, and combined library catalogs, and in bookseller websites such as Amazon.

Search Your Library

Can you search your library catalog from within Citavi? We continually add additional online resourc­es and gladly accept suggestions for new ones.

Check whether your library catalog is available in Citavi.

Check Availability

Citavi saves call numbers for items in your library. When you import references from other sources, Citavi can check if they are available in your library or through interlibrary loan.

Partners

Search Subscription Databases

If your computer is connected to your campus or organizational network, you can access subscribed databases from within Citavi.

Manage References

Add References by Hand

Citavi's 35 reference types help you capture the bibliographic information relevant to each of your sources. But you almost never need to do it manually...

Add References Automatically

Just enter an ISBN number, DOI name, or PubMed ID, and Citavi retrieves the bibliographic information for you, along with the cover art, abstract, and keywords, if available.

Add References with the Picker

If you find information online, you can use the Picker to add references with just a click. Learn more.

Add References with a Bar Code Scanner

You can probably find a bar code scanner program in your smartphone's app store. These can save a list of ISBN numbers which you can then import in Citavi.

Import with Ease

Quickly import references from other reference management programs (EndNote, RefWorks, etc.) and from Web-based resources in RIS, EndNote Tagged, and BibTeX formats. Naturally you can export to these formats as well.

Eliminate Duplicates

When importing references, Citavi checks to see if they are already in your project and identifies duplicates.

Import Bibliographic Information
from PDFs

You can import a folder of PDFs and Citavi automatically adds each as a reference and looks up the bibliographic information.

Integrate PDFs and Other Documents

Find Full Text

Let Citavi find and download the full text of journal and newspaper articles from the Internet.

Take a Look in the Preview

Use the preview to view nearly all types of files: PDFs, Web pages, Word and Writer documents, images, videos, and presentations. For documents with smaller type or computers with smaller displays, you can easily zoom in or resize the preview.

Watch videos in the preview

Resize the preview for articles in small type

Save Documents in the Citavi Folder

Citavi can save all documents directly in the Citavi project folder. Everything in one place — that makes creating backups easier and helps when it is time to move your projects to a new computer.

Save Web Pages as PDF

You can tell Citavi to save a Web page that's open in the preview as a PDF. This is also saved in the project folder.

Evaluate Content

With Citavi, you don't just collect information like with other reference management programs.

With Citavi, you create knowledge..

Evaluate the texts you're working with; keep track of questions, definitions, hypotheses, results, etc.; and note down your own comments and ideas.

Collect

Collect Everything:

   Direct Quotations

   Indirect Quotations

   Summaries

   Image and File Quotations

   Your own Comments

   Your own Thoughts

Avoid Plagiarism

Unattributed quotations never "just happen" if you use Citavi.

Add Passages from the Preview

You can easily evaluate texts in the Preview. Just highlight the text and click to copy the passage as a quotation - complete with its source information.

Scan Quotations

If you're working with a lot of printed materials and don't like to type, you can use a scanning pen. Speech recognition software, digital photos, and flatbed scanners are other options. Learn more.

Add Quotations with the Picker

With the Pickers you can add quotations from Internet documents (Web pages and PDFs). Learn more.

Tap into Web Content with the Pickers

Citavi Pickers are available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Pickers are free of charge and can be installed at the same time as Citavi.

Add References with the Picker

• Save the current Web page as a new reference with just a click.
• The Picker detects every ISBN number and DOI name on a Web page and places the Citavi icon next to it  .
  Just click and Citavi retrieves the bibliographic information from the Internet.
• When you perform searches on select websites, including PubMed, WorldCat, Arxiv.org, and ERIC the Picker can send the results directly to your project.

Add Quotations with the Picker

• Save selected text as a Quotation — properly cited, of course!
• You can also save:
  Abstracts
  Tables of contents
  Keywords
• You can save images as
  Image quotations or
  Cover art

Organize Knowledge

Citavi offers something extraordinary:
The Knowledge Organizer

Structure Your Work

The category system makes it easy to systematically structure research proposals and publications and is especially useful for outlining a term project, thesis, or dissertation.

Create a Compilation

No more writer’s block! Saving or printing a list of your quotations and thoughts gives you a quick overview of how far along you are in your project.

Cultivate and Organize

Add direct and indirect quotations, comments, summaries, and your own thoughts directly to Citavi. This knowledge base grows in value with each new quotation and thought you save and is always at hand for future projects.

Citavi gives you two tools for organizing and structuring your collected knowledge: conventional keywording and a hierarchical category system - another Citavi exclusive. Both keywords and categories can be changed at any time.

Write and Cite Your Sources

Writing with Microsoft Word

Citavi’s Add-In for Word makes it easy to put your knowledge on paper. Simply insert your category system from Citavi and then view the references, quotations, and thoughts you collected for each chapter.

Work with Writer, TeX, etc.

Citavi works with OpenOffice.org Writer, and most word processors that support the Rich Text (RTF) or OpenDocument Text (ODT) formats. Citavi also works with popular LaTeX editors, such as Led, LyX, TeXMaker, TeXnixCenter, WinEdt, WinShell, and WinTex.

Write and Cite Your Sources

Just click to insert citations, quotations, and thoughts into your document. Citavi automatically formats everything in the chosen citation style.

Create Bibliographies

Citavi automatically generates a finished publication. The citation style browser helps you choose the right style by showing you a preview of bibliography entries and in-text or footnote citations in each style. Choose from Over Citation Styles.

The only thing Citavi doesn't do is write your paper for you.

Plan Tasks

Citavi's Task Planner makes your work more transparent, and effective.

Forget Nothing

   You can add tasks to each reference:

Borrow, Examine and Assess, Read, Return, etc.

   Citavi never forgets a deadline.

Save Time

   Before you leave for the library, let Citavi print a

task list, sorted by call number so you don't make an unnecessary trip.

   Just click to order books online from an online

bookseller or the bookstore around the corner.

Plan Your Project

   Citavi’s Task Planner helps you manage project

goals, reminds you of deadlines, and lets you assign tasks — in a team, too.

Work in a Team

Collaborate on a local network

Citavi Team is a special edition of Citavi that allows you to work with others on shared projects at the same time on a local network. Offsite users can log in with a VPN to access team projects.

Read or Edit

Team members can be assigned the role of reader or editor for each project. Citavi Team users can be assigned the editor role, while users of Citavi Pro or Reader can be assigned the reader role.

Teamwork Your Way

You decide how you want to collaborate. For example, companies, institutes, or departments can use Citavi Team to create a repository of journal articles and documentation that all members can use for their individual work. Team members can also collaborate more closely by sharing the work of evaluating and analyzing full texts, assigning tasks, sharing comments, ratings, and recommendations, and using Citavi as a knowledge base for shared projects.

For very large projects, you need appropriately powerful hardware. On computers with less than 4 GB of RAM, we recommend a maximum of 20,000 references per project.

Customize and Extend Citavi

Personalize

Configure Citavi to best suit your needs

• Customize the Overview tab to show fields that are important to you.
• Create a selection of your favorite reference types.
• Create custom tasks.
• Save search queries.
• Distinguish between projects using different colors.

Choose Spell Check Dictionaries

You can select from 11 included language dictionaries and add additional dictionaries at no cost.

Extend Citavi with Add-Ons

Citavi Add-Ons let you add features to Citavi or change existing features. They offer highly specialized features that will not be added to the main program, for example, features that only will be used by a specific user group or academic discipline.

Citavi Add-Ons let you add the special features you need without overloading Citavi for users who have no use for them. Learn more in our Add-On Forum.