Citavi is a reference management program for Microsoft Windows published by Swiss Academic Software in Wädenswil

Wädenswil

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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. Citavi is widespread in Germany , with site licenses at many German universities, many of which offer training sessions and settings files for Citavi.

Versions

Citavi is descended from a reference management program called LiteRat, developed at the Heinrich Heine University in 1995, and considered version 1.0. The first version to bear the Citavi name was released as Citavi 2. Version 3 was released in November 2010, the first version with a user interface in English (prior versions were in German only).

Citavi is offered as Citavi Free (no cost, limited to 100 references per project), Citavi Pro (commercial, unlimited solo projects, team projects limited to 100 references), Citavi Team (commercial, no restrictions), and Citavi Reader (commercial, read access to all projects, limited to editing solo projects up to 100 references).

Features

Citavi's core features are reference management, knowledge organization, and task planning. An online search feature lets the user search databases and catalogs from within the program.

• Reference management with reference types for common sources.
• Management of local files, such as PDFs (including automatic metadata
  Metadata
  The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
  
   import from PDF).
• Online search in thousands of databases
  Bibliographic database
  A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc...
  
   and library catalogs.
• Publishing in over a thousand citation styles.
• Integrated citation style editor.
• Works with Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...
  
  , OpenOffice.org Writer
  OpenOffice.org Writer
  OpenOffice.org Writer is the word processor component of the OpenOffice.org software package. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some of their features....
  
  , and various LaTeX
  LaTeX
  LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
  
   editors.
• Picker extensions for Internet Explorer
  Internet Explorer
  Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...
  
  , Mozilla Firefox
  Mozilla Firefox
  Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...
  
  , and Adobe Acrobat
  Adobe Acrobat
  Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format . All members of the family, except Adobe Reader , are commercial software, while the latter is available as freeware and can be downloaded...
  
   and Reader, to facilitate saving sources and quotations.
• Automatic import of references by ISBN, DOI name
  Digital object identifier
  A digital object identifier is a character string used to uniquely identify an object such as an electronic document. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found...
  
  , or PubMed
  PubMed
  PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...
  
   ID.
• Import from other reference management programs and formats, including EndNote
  EndNote
  EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters.- Features :...
  
  , ProCite, and BibTeX
  BibTeX
  BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...
  
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• Knowledge organization to collect and organize quotations and thoughts.
• Task planner for scheduling.

Links

• Official website: citavi.com
• Citavi 3 Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet (PDF)