Citavi

Citavi is a bibliographic management program for Microsoft Windows. It is developed by the company Swiss Academic Software based in Wädenswil near Zurich. It is based on the software platform. NET.

Versions

Predecessor was developed at the Heinrich -Heine- University Dusseldorf program LiteRat whose version 1.0 was released in 1995. In February 2006, the newly developed version was delivered under the name Citavi 2.0. On 22 November 2010, version 3 was delivered. With this version of the program for the first time with English user interface usable, it also no longer based on the MS Access database engine, but on SQLite. As of version 4, you can choose a language for the user interface in English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.

Citavi is offered in four versions that are enabled by the license key:

• Citavi Free: free version, without a license key. Editing is limited to 100 documents per project, no further restrictions.
• Citavi Reader: commercial version that allows the reading of team and individual projects.
• Citavi Pro: commercial version for individual projects.
• Citavi Team: commercial version for team and individual projects.

A version for Apple Macintosh was announced for 2011, the development was stopped in September 2011. Citavi can be used on Mac through virtualization.

Functions

Citavi integrated reference management, knowledge organization and task planning. In a team project, which is stored on a Windows network drive, up to 20 people at a time to add or change data. To the online offer of help from Citavi include, inter alia, an introductory e- mail newsletters, videos, an online manual and a support forum.

Reference Management

• Evidence of different types of documents (books, articles, lectures, sound and film documents, screenshots, etc.) can be collected, managed and stored. The awarding of keywords, the documents are indexed according.
• Links to electronic versions media can be managed.
• Citavi support literature searches, by (for example, PubMed, Web of Science etc. ), book trade and library catalogs allows online access to scientific literature databases.
• Wish lists from scientific literature databases, bookselling and library catalogs can be imported using text filters.
• Citavi picker for internet browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome) International Standard Book Numbers and DOI are detected on Web pages using the picker and can be imported by clicking on a Citavi project.
• Can be imported as a document in a Citavi project using the picker websites with a mouse click, in addition, a screenshot of the current view, or full page will be attached.
• Citavi in the website can be immediately converted into a PDF document to secure the contents of the page.

• By the picker, a PDF document will be imported directly into a Citavi project. The metadata in the file are used, if any. If the document has a DOI, are automatically nachrecherchiert with this bibliographic information.

• Word add -in. This short proofs and quotes from Citavi can be incorporated directly in your own text without Word [ 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 365 ] to exit. The bibliography automatically grows when writing a Reformatting is not necessary.
• Cooperation with OpenOffice Writer and LibreOffice Writer goes placeholders, which are inserted into the text. These are finally merged automatically when formatting a bibliography which is appended to the end of the file.
• Cooperation with many other programs that can process documents in RTF format (eg Scrivener ) works via the clipboard.
• Integration with the LaTeX editor LyX via a named pipe. ( Guide to setting; pdf, 1.3 MB).
• Other supported LaTeX editors: LEd, Texmaker, TeXnicCenter, TeXstudio, TeXworks, WinEdt, WinShell, WinTeX. Inserting citations and customizable LaTeX citation ( for example, \ cite { } Mueller2008 ) via keyboard shortcut.

Knowledge Organization

• Citavi can manage passages and images from documents as a quote, text, or images as your own thoughts. These quotes and thoughts can be used as the text blocks in the text processing, the quotes are thereby been properly documented.

• The structure of one's own publication in Chapter can be displayed in a category system. Within the chapters of the quotes and own thoughts can be ordered to reflect their own arguments. This allows a structuring of their own work before the actual writing process.
• Citavi five different citation types: Quotations
• Summaries, which summarize paragraphs of text short
• Integrate image or file citations with the possibility of an image from a source directly in Citavi
• Indirect quotes that reflect some of the text in their own words
• Comments for knowledge elements or pages from the literature source

Task Scheduler

• Citavi has an appointment with administrative tasks (document- based ) and milestones ( project-related), for example, to keep an eye on loan periods and plan steps.

For LaTeX users Citavi provides the following functions

• Several configurable BibTeX and biblatex - export filters: Citavi scans the LaTeX document and exported using the BibTeX key, the corresponding Citavi title in a BibTeX file (which can then in turn be used by LaTeX / BibTeX to format text ).
• Automatic creation of the BibTeX keys for Citavi title (based on configurable template).

• A further expansion of support, in particular biblatex is planned.

Relevance

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland Citavi is common with campus licenses at over 200 universities and research facilities, including all universities in Bavaria and Baden- Württemberg. The reference list is also find companies, research institutes and government agencies.

Compatibility

• Citavi files can be imported by many other literature administrations.