In workshops we offer you an introduction to the Citavi program. We show you the first steps to your Citavi project and practise together how to fill and structure your project.

In these introductory courses, the basic functions of Citavi are explained and practiced. No previous knowledge is required.
Dates online seminars (in German)

Focal points include:

• How to install Citavi and about the license version.
• What Citavi looks like and how to use it.
• How to import references and electronic full texts from catalogues and databases.
• How to insert references and quotations with one click into your word document.
• How to choose a citation style for your references and create a bibliography.

Target group

• students of the University of Duisburg-Essen
• academic staff of the UDE
• all interested

Dates

There are no workshops in English language at the moment. Please use our online self-study course.

Please note:
Citavi is a Windows application and the add-in is only available for MS Word.

 

Download and installation

Citavi Desktop (Windows)

Citavi installieren (User manual)

Note: Citavi 7 is still in beta, we recommend downloading Citavi 6.

Do you work with a Mac?
Then find out about the possibility of using Citavi Web.

Please note the missing functions of Citavi Web compared to Citavi for Windows (desktop).

License key for students and employees of the UDE

Create a Citavi account here (http://www.citavi.com/uni-due) using your UDE mailing adress. Your license key is available there.

Open Citavi Windows and enter your access data for the Citavi account. This makes Citavi Windows unrestricted available to you.  Now the application has unlimited capacity and also allows teamwork for small teams in a local network or for large groups in the Citavi Cloud.

Use

• Desktop für Windows (7 and higher), Citavi Cloud
• multilingual surface
• Teamwork on a shared space on the UDE fileserver or in the Citavi Cloud
• Please note: For data protection reasons, we recommend storing sensitive project data locally instead of in the Citavi Cloud. Please note the privacy policy and the user agreement that you agree to when creating your Citavi account.
• Citing using an add-in for MS Word or using a TeX editor (BibTeX). Other word processing programmes are currently not supported.

• As Citavi is a Windows application, it can only be run on a Mac with a virtual machine (e.g. Parallels) or on a separate partition (Boot Camp) with a Windows installation. Citavi, MS Word and Firefox or Chrome, which must communicate with each other, should then be installed on this partition.

• Important: Please switch off automatic synchronisation with other cloud applications (e.g. Sciebo, OneDrive, DropBox) while working with Citavi.

Advantage

• easy transfer and structuring of bibliographic data and full texts in the project
• manage text quotations, comments and your own ideas complete with references and insert them perfectly formatted into MS Word at the click of a mouse
• PDF documents can be annotated
• hierarchical structure (categories) can be exported to word processing programme
• task planning
• search for locations
• shared bibliographies
• video: Citavi (very) briefly introduced (4:30 min)

Support

• Citavi in a Nutshell Video
• All Citavi Training Videos.
• Tips for recognizing, adding, and citing different reference types
• Analyzing PDFs with Citavi 6
• Citavi support portal

Insert citations

• All about the Citavi Word Add-In Video
• Troubleshooting the Citavi Word Add-In: WAI Inspector
• Finding Citation Styles  Citavi user manual
• Citation system: Changing the Position of Citations

Downloads: UDE specific citation styles (ZIP file)

All regulations and guidelines are only available in German:

Historisches Institut

Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen (Prof. Böhm)

Institut für Straßenbau

Lehrstuhl für Internationale Rechnungslegung
 (Prof. Dr. Kasperzak, Stand: 2018)

Medizin (neue Ausführungsbestimmungen: Stand: 4/2018)

Medizinmanagement (Leitfaden: Version 9, 2019)

MSM F1 (Fußnotenstil, Leitfaden: Stand: Juli 2024)

MSM F2  (textinternes Zitat, Leitfaden: Stand: Juli 2024)

PIM (Prof. Dr. Zelewski, alter Leitfaden)

PIM (Prof. Dr. Zelewski, Leitfaden: Version 41)

Save the file (right-click > Save target as ...) locally on your computer. Open the ZIP file by double-clicking on it and save the .ccs file it contains (right-click > Save target as ...) in the Custom Citation Styles directory (usually located in C:\Users\Username\My Documents\Citavi 6\). You will then find the style immediately in the list of citation styles in Citavi and in the Word Add-In.

If you find any deviations from the citation rules in the respective guidelines in the adapted styles, please let us know. We will be happy to assist you with any adjustments to your citation style, please contact us at literaturverwaltung.ub@uni-due.de.

Moodle courses

• learn Citavi on your own
• at any time

Citavi-Kurs in Moodle (de)
Citavi course in Moodle (en)