Citavi combines reference management and knowledge organization. You can search resources from around the world, create tasks, analyze texts, save quotations and ideas, create outlines for drafts, and write reports, articles, or books.
Citavi‘s categories, groups, filters, and search, help you find exactly the literature and information you need efficiently. It also securely offers the option of storing and sharing your information both on your server, on your desktop or in the cloud.
About
What is Citavi?
Import
Already have a lot of sources, or were working with another referencing tool? It’s easy to add PDFs, documents, books, and reference libraries you already have to Citavi, whatever the format! For many types of sources, Citavi can automatically add the citation information. It also helps you find additional sources online or in the program.
- Drag PDFs to your project or import one or multiple folders at once. Citavi automatically adds the citation information.
- With Citavi’s import filters, you can add sources from any other reference management program.
- Citavi imports references in RIS, BibTeX, ENW formats, Excel tables, Word bibliographies, etc.
- For books, just enter an ISBN or other identifier, and Citavi retrieves its information, along with the cover art, abstract, and keywords, if available.
- Office documents and image files can also be managed with Citavi.
- Surf and save: whenever you find a book, article, or webpage online, use the Picker extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge to quickly send its information and any available full text to Citavi.
- The Picker identifies ISBNs and DOIs on web pages and sends the reference information to your project.
- The Picker can also send webpages and full-text PDFs to Citavi.
- On News-sites, the Picker pulls metadata from the page and automatically creates a PDF of the article.
- Web content changes frequently. Save a copy of a webpage as a PDF in your project.
Search online databases in Citavi or in your browser
Search freely accessible databases, library catalogs, and research databases your organization has licensed.
- Save search queries you use often and avoid importing duplicates.
- Add references from Google Scholar, PubMed, and every other online research database with an export option.
- Citavi saves a list of your imports. You can always check where, when, and with what search terms you performed a search and view the references you added.
News
New features in Citavi 6
Work efficiently
Whether you just need a quick bibliography, you’re searching a team library of 20,000 sources, or you want to keep track of notes, The tools help you work faster and more effectively.
See the big picture
Big projects with tons of sources can feel overwhelming. Break your work down into tasks, keep track of important information from your articles, and sift through your sources to find the ones you really need – alone or in a team.
Data security made easy
Store your information on your own server instead of in the cloud. Individuals can also choose between local and online projects. It automatically creates backups so you never lose your information.
Write with style
Say goodbye to wasted time formatting citations and bibliographies. With over 10,000 citation styles: APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, etc., etc. Need one that’s not there? You can create it yourself!
System
System requirements
Citavi 6 Desktop
The Citavi Word Add-In is an add-in for Microsoft Word 2019, 2016, 2013 and 2010 (32 bit or 64 bit for all versions). With the Word Add-In you can insert references and quotations from your project into Word. The bibliography is generated automatically.
Citavi DBServer
Citavi Web
Licensing
License Options
All license options can be installed both at the office computer and home computer for the license owner/end-user.
Please contact us for help choosing the best licensing option for your organization!
Support
Support
Alfasoft provides free technical support to all our customers.
Please describe your problem as detailed as possible when contacting our support. Remember to always inform about your serial-/license number, product version and your operating system.
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