The Only All-in-One Writing and Referencing Solution
Streamline your research writing process with the only tool designed to organize, track, and format your writing and references. With features designed to methodically manage your notes and articles and automatic citation formatting for over 10,000 styles, Citavi brings calm to the chaos of writing. With Citavi, your presentation is half-written before you even begin. Buy now or request a free trial to start improving your research writing process.
An Overview
Simplify your writing and editing process, organizing sources, and developing papers with Citavi.
Streamline your research writing process with the only tool designed to organize, track, and format your writing and references. With features designed to methodically manage your notes and articles and automatic citation formatting for over 10,000 styles, Citavi brings calm to the chaos of writing. With Citavi, your presentation is half-written before you even begin. An extraordinary knowledge tool unique among referencing programs.
Citavi is the only reference management program for teams that gives you the option of storing your information on your own server instead of in the cloud. Citavi offers over 10,000 citation styles: APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, etc.
Features & Benefits
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Work Efficiently
Citavi enables you to work faster and effectively, whether you need a short bibliography, or searching a team library of 20,000 sources, or want to keep track of notes.
Find Sources for Your Paper
Instead of googling for hours, use Citavi to search your library’s catalogues and research databases for new sources. This helps you find the right texts faster and saves you time and trouble.
Cite Books, Journal Articles, Webpage, etc.
Use Citavi to cite any source you need for your papers. From academic monographs to webpages – with Citavi’s Picker you can send citation information for books and webpages from your browser to your project. No more piles of paper or lost printouts. All with just a click.
Keep On Track and Get Organized
Create an outline in Citavi. While you read, assign your sources, important quotations, and your own ideas to different sections. Refine your outline as you go. When it’s time to write, you’ll have everything at hand: all your references, quotations, and ideas.
Plan for Progress
Not everything is equally important. A quick look at a book’s title or a journal article’s abstract helps you set priorities. With Citavi’s Task Planner you always know when you want to work on what, and the tasks you’ve already completed.
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Testimonials
“Citavi’s User interface is easy to navigate and manage references without a steep learning curve. It is a very powerful Reference Management system that allows users to efficiently manage a large number of references, organise them in categories, and attach notes and files. The ability to import references from various databases is also a significant plus. The features like Task Planning, Collaborate feature, Citation Support and Integration with MS Word make it the most robust citation and Reference management system in the world. I am quite satisfied with my academic and research journey with Citavi.”
Dr Sumit Narula
Deputy Dean Research (Publications and Research) At Amity University Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Citavi account contains your license keys and helps you manage and purchase licenses. In addition, you can do the following:
- After logging in to your account, you can see any upgrade discounts for new versions that you are entitled to.
- If you received a Citavi voucher code, you can redeem it for a personalized license key.
- If you purchased licenses for Citavi for DBServer, you can download the license file that you’ll then install on the server.
Before making the switch to Citavi 6, learn about what’s new and what’s changed. A step-by-step upgrade guide is provided for you in our manual.
- If you are using Citavi’s Publication Assistant to insert placeholders in Microsoft Word, convert your placeholders to fields with Citavi 4 or 5. After that install the upgrade to Citavi 6. Please note the system requirements.
- If you are using Citavi’s Publication Assistant to insert placeholders in LibreOffice or OpenOffice do not install the upgrade to Citavi 6. Please enter your email address hereto express your interest in a LibreOffice add-in.
- If you are using a TeX editor, you do not have to make any changes. Citavi 6 continues to support TeX.
You own a license for an earlier Citavi version and are eligible for a discount
Purchase your license via the upgrade page in our shop.
Your organization has purchased a site license and you are eligible for a free upgrade
Most participating educational institutions and companies have already unlocked Citavi 6 for their members. You can switch to Citavi 6, if your organization is listed here without the [Citavi 5] designation.
You do not have to enter your license data
Log in to Citavi 6 with your account information. Citavi will recognize whether you have a valid license for Citavi 6.
Upon logging in, you are given the option to stay logged in. This is only recommended if you are the sole user of your computer. The license data is stored on your computer for no longer than a year. You will then have to log in to Citavi with an active internet connection to confirm your license.
This can happen if you created your account with an email address that we don’t recognize or if you used a login from another service provider (Facebook, Microsoft, Google) to create your account.
Solution: In Citavi Account, add the email address that you used for a site license request or for your purchase.
Citavi includes a robust Citation Style Editor which makes it possible to implement almost any citation rules you might encounter. As a result, the Editor is a very complex tool and requires a great deal of time to master. It’s often more efficient to first try an alternate approach:
- Ask if your library or faculty can provide a Citavi style.
If you need a citation style that follows the guidelines of a university chair, an institute or a faculty, it is only of local relevance and cannot therefore be created by us for free. However, if the faculty or library creates a fitting citation style for Citavi, we will be happy to upload the style upon request into our central repository. Please contact the Citavi-Supportfor further information. - Search for a matching or similar style.
There’s a good chance that you’ll be able to find a style in Citavi that is similar to yours. In Citavi 4 and later an advanced style finder is available, which helps you select styles according to certain criteria. Our manualshows you how to use this feature. - Don’t make unnecessary changes.
If your department or course requires you to use a style that only differs in a few small details from the style you found, check with your professor or advisor to see if their guidelines are “only” a recommendation and if it might be possible to use a different citation style. Such citation rules are usually created to give students some guidance so that sources are cited completely and in a consistent way. - Take the time to become familiar with the Citation Style Editor’s main features.
Take a look at the manual chapter Creating Citation Styles. - Don’t start from scratch; find a similar style and make changes to it.
You’ll save a lot of time if you make changes to a pre-existing style. See how in our manual. - Check for solutions to typical style problems.
Chances are, if you’re not sure how to recreate a style rule, someone else already has been, too. Search our collection of frequently asked questions (FAQ) and our Forumto find solutions for how to implement common citation style requirements. - Let us help!
If you have a license for Citavi, we’re happy to help you with your individual questions. Write to us by creating a new ticket. Make sure to be as clear as possible about what goal you want to achieve and please also send us a sample Word document with clear examples. For individual citation styles, our free help is limited to one question. If you need additional support beyond that, we’re happy to help for an additional fee.