Reference Management
and Knowledge Organization
Citavi and The Process of Scholarly Writing
Citavi is the perfect reference
management tool for research.
Gathering
Publishing
Planning
It supports you through the entire
process: from planning to searching
online, to working with your sources
and organizing knowledge, and of
course preparing your manuscript.
On your own or in a team.
Organizing
Knowledge
Studying
The Reference Editor
Navigation on the left, editing in the middle, preview on
the right for PDF and text
documents, images, Web
pages and your own
knowledge items.
Import EndNote libraries,
RIS, BibTeX, ENW, or other
text files.
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Publishing
Organizing
Knowledge
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Studying
Table View
Add columns, sort, and
group your data.
Export to Microsoft Excel
and OpenOffice.org Calc.
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Studying
Online Search
Citavi lets you search over
4000 online resources,
including shared library
catalogs and bibliographic
databases – and countless
university libraries.
Citavi’s online search offers
the same search fields as
each catalog’s website.
If you search multiple
catalogs at once, Citavi
offers all the options they
have in common.
Gathering
In cooperation with:
Publishing
Organizing
Knowledge
Planning
Studying
Home In
With Citavi you can search
your local library catalog,
add your favorite library’s
call numbers to books you
found somewhere else, and
check the availability of your
references with OpenURL.
Citavi autodetects databases your organization has
subscribed to and helps your
organization’s IT department
to easily set the administrative settings for all users.
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Publishing
Organizing
Knowledge
Planning
Studying
The Task Planner
Citavi's Task Planner lets
you manage your project
tasks, remind you of
deadlines, and make sure
you stay on track.
Designed specifically for
scholarly work, the Task
Planner makes sure
nothing falls through the
cracks.
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Publishing
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Studying
Studying
Use the preview to view
images, videos, and
presentations, and to read
and evaluate PDFs and
other full texts.
Click to copy a passage to
the reference as a
quotation, abstract or
table of contents.
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Organizing
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Studying
The Knowledge Organizer
By saving knowledge items
— quotations, thoughts, and
comments — in the Knowledge Organizer, Citavi helps
you make sense of content
and create knowledge from
information.
Citavi gives you two tools for
organizing and structuring
your collected knowledge:
Keywords help you describe
items, while categories let
you structure and group.
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Publishing
With the Publication Assistant, you insert citations and
quotations into your manuscript. When you're done,
Citavi formats your paper in
the citation style you need,
complete with bibliography.
Choose from over 700
citation styles or create
your own.
Add-In for Microsoft Word
coming soon.
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Studying
More Useful Features
The family of Picker extensions let you
grab references and quotations from your
Web browser or Adobe Reader:
• Send the current page or document to
Citavi as a reference.
• Save selected text as a quotation in Citavi.
• Save abstracts, tables of contents, and
keywords just as easily.
• Save images as image quotations or
cover art.
• The Picker detects every ISBN and
DOI name on a Web page. Just one click and the reference is added to your project.
For LaTeX users, Citavi has advanced BibTeX support.
The Team version of Citavi allows concurrent read-write access to a project by multiple users, so
groups can maintain a single project, for example, a shared repository of literature or departmental library holdings.
Summary
Supports the process of scholarly writing:
gathering, planning, organizing, studying,
and publishing.
Supports more online resources than other
reference management programs.
Includes browser extensions to help you transfer information to your projects.
Provides knowledge-building tools for summarizing, categorizing, annotating, and
commenting.
Supports working in teams.
Includes extensive support and training offerings.