Citavi

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Citavi

Citavi 6 - literature, quotations, preview
Citavi - organizing knowledge
Basic data

developer Swiss Academic Software
Publishing year 1995
Current  version 6.5
(July 28, 2020)
operating system Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , Windows Server 2016 , Windows Server 2012 , Windows Server 2008
category Literature management program
License proprietary
German speaking Yes
www.citavi.com

Citavi is a program for reference management and knowledge organization for Microsoft Windows . It is used at universities and colleges for writing term papers and theses, by researchers for writing scientific publications, and in companies for writing reports and for organizing knowledge in teams. Citavi is developed by Swiss Academic Software based in Wädenswil near Zurich. It is based on the .NET software platform .

Versions

The predecessor was the LiteRat program developed at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , version 1.0 of which appeared in 1995. In 2006 the newly developed version was published under the name Citavi 2.0. In 2010 the graphically and technically completely revised version Citavi 3 appeared. This meant that the program could also be used with an English-language user interface. Since version 4, which appeared in 2013, the user interface can be switched between German, English, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish, and an add-on for Word has also been developed. Citavi 5 was released in April 2015 with editions for individual users and for teams. In February 2018, Citavi 6 added the option of storing data in a centrally provided cloud and inviting other users with differentiated usage rights to projects.

An independent development for OS X was discontinued in 2011, an operating system-independent web version is in progress.

Products

  • Citavi Free can be downloaded and installed directly from the website; it can be used without a license key, but with the restriction of 100 documents per project (Citavi calls its databases “projects”). Any number of projects can be created with Citavi Free. Cloud projects are saved in the Citavi cloud, and local projects as files locally on your own computer. Other people can be invited as team members to cloud projects; the possible roles are reader, author and manager.
  • With a Citavi for Windows license, there is no limit to 100 documents.
  • The Citavi for DBServer license also enables institutions and companies to save projects on a Microsoft SQL Server in the intranet. The users can be integrated via the Active Directory . Users with individual access rights per project can also access DBServer projects in a team at the same time.

Functions

Citavi integrates the management of references and full texts with functions for knowledge organization and task planning that is tailored to the needs of working with texts. The contextualized quick help integrated in the program is supplemented by an online manual, an introductory e-mail newsletter , videos, a support forum and, for license holders, personal help.

Reference management

  • Evidence of different document types (35 types, e.g. books, articles, lectures, audio and film documents, etc.) can be collected, managed, saved and their content made accessible.
  • Citavi supports literature research by providing online access to several thousand scientific literature databases (including PubMed , Web of Science, etc.), book trade and library catalogs. The open COinS standard is also supported so that bibliographical data can be taken directly from the publisher's website. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds in Citavi.
  • The Citavi pickers for web browsers, add-ons for Mozilla Firefox , Internet Explorer and Google Chrome , recognize international standard book numbers , DOIs , PubMed IDs , PubMedCentral IDs and arXiv IDs on websites . The corresponding titles can be imported into Citavi with a click. Websites can also be imported with a click of the mouse and converted into PDF documents in Citavi to save their content. The Citavi Picker for Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader can be used to import PDF documents. If available, the bibliographical information is automatically researched.
  • PDF documents can be annotated in Citavi. The search integrated in Citavi also searches the full texts of the attached PDF documents, provided they can be extracted.
  • Citavi projects can be linked to word processing programs .
    • An add-on is available for Word . This means that short references and quotations from Citavi can be incorporated directly into your own text without leaving Word. The bibliography grows automatically as you write, no subsequent formatting is required.
    • Several LaTeX editors can be addressed directly in order to \cite{Mueller2008}insert quotations and LaTeX citation commands (for example ) from Citavi . The connection to the LaTeX editor LyX is established via a named pipe .
    • Only up to Citavi 5 : With OpenOffice Writer and LibreOffice Writer as well as with programs that can process documents in RTF format (such as Scrivener), placeholders are inserted into the text, which are then merged into a bibliography when formatting.
  • Citavi offers over 9,300 citation styles to choose from (as of August 6, 2018). Further styles for scientific journals are created free of charge on request and errors in existing citation styles are corrected centrally. Citation styles can also be searched for on the basis of features, and a powerful citation style editor allows you to edit existing styles and create your own.

Knowledge organization

  • Citavi can manage text passages and images from documents as quotations and texts and images as your own thoughts. These quotations and thoughts can be used as text modules in the word processor, the quotations are automatically assigned correctly. Citavi differentiates between five types of quotations and two other types for recording your own thoughts in text or image form.
  • Quotations are linked to the document when PDF documents are annotated in Citavi, so that you can directly access the location in the PDF document with a click of the mouse.
Quotation types in Citavi 5
  • The structure of your own publication can be mapped in a category system. Within the categories, the quotes and thoughts can be arranged in such a way that they reflect your own argumentation. This enables the work to be structured before the actual writing process.

Task planning

  • Title tasks (document-related) and project tasks (project-related) allow appointments such as loan periods and work steps to be organized.
  • Tasks such as “Discuss” or “Check” can be linked directly to text passages in PDF documents.

compatibility

  • Citavi bibliographic data can be imported from other reference management programs, and Citavi can import the data from other reference management programs, either directly, as in the case of EndNote and BibTeX files, or via an import filter or by using a RIS export file as when importing from Mendeley , ProCite, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero and others.
  • For Wikipedia authors it should be interesting that bibliographic data in the citation styles Wikipedia - Template Literature (German) or Wikipedia (German) can be copied directly to the clipboard and transferred to the text of a Wikipedia article.

proof

  1. ↑ What's new in Citavi 6.5? In: Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software, July 28, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ LiteRat. Version 1.06 for Windows 3.1 to Windows XP. In: Website LiteRat. Swiss Academic Software, January 2, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Course script. Reference management with Citavi - basic course. (PDF; 1.48 MB) 1. Why reference management programs - why Citavi? In: mediatum - digital collection management. Technical University of Munich, University Library, April 5, 2016, p. 3 , accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  4. ^ Juliane Thümmel: Organizing knowledge with Citavi . In: bit online . tape 19 , no. 1 , 2016, p. 84–85 ( full text [PDF; 83 kB ; accessed on August 23, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Citavi Forum - Information on Mac development. In: Citavi Forum. Swiss Academic Software, September 16, 2011, accessed on August 23, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Reference management programs in comparison. (PDF; 360 KB) In: mediatum - digital collection management. Technical University of Munich, University Library, August 3, 2016, p. 15 , accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Course script. Reference management with Citavi - advanced course. (PDF; 2.11 MB) PDF processing in the preview window. In: mediatum - digital collection management. Technical University of Munich, University Library, July 4, 2016, p. 32 , accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Course script. Reference management with Citavi - advanced course. (PDF; 2.11 MB) How do I use the publication assistant together with a TeX editor? In: mediatum - digital collection management. Technical University of Munich, University Library, July 4, 2016, p. 24 , accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Course script. Reference management with Citavi - advanced course. (PDF; 2.11 MB) Record knowledge elements and assign categories. In: mediatum - digital collection management. Technical University of Munich, University Library, July 4, 2016, p. 30 , accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Citavi in ​​detail - exporting titles. In: Handbuch Citavi 6. Swiss Academic Software, February 20, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Citavi in ​​detail - Importing titles - Importing from other programs. In: Handbuch Citavi 6. Swiss Academic Software, February 20, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2018 .