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What is Citavi?

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.

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Citavi is a user-friendly reference management and knowledge organization program for researchers and students.


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Recent Citavi Reviews

Lorenzo S.
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Lorenzo S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Manager of Appointments and Bibliographic References"
One of the best features of the Citavi software is the organized management and administration of bibliographic textual citations through tags and ...
Pierre S.
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Pierre S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Very impressed about the application and services"
I use Citavi for my scientific work in research. citavi has a cloud access which I think is great. The application runs extremely reliably. If ques...
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Lukas K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great Software and support"
Best technical support experience so far! Fast response, friendly, caring, just perfect.
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Citavi Media

Citavi Demo - Reference Editor
View references and create selections. Preview for PDFs, websites, Word files, etc.
Citavi Demo - Task Planner
Overview of project milestones and all the everyday tasks in academic research, including obtaining materials, evaluating texts, and returning library books.
Citavi Demo - Knowledge Organizer
Organize quotations, comments and thoughts by keywords or multilevel categories.
Citavi Demo - Table View
Get an overview of the information in your project. The table view can be used to easily sort by certain criteria and to create selections.
Citavi Demo - Citavi Add-In for Microsoft Word
Just click to insert citations, quotations, and thoughts into your document with the Word Add-In. Citavi’s Publication Assistant can be used with OpenOffice Writer or popular LaTeX editors.
Citavi Demo - User Feedback
"With Citavi I can work more efficiently and in a more organized way."
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Lorenzo S.
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What do you like best about Citavi?

One of the best features of the Citavi software is the organized management and administration of bibliographic textual citations through tags and categories, as well as the possibility of including citations and references directly in our writing as we work on it (and the required citation style). The Add-on in Microsoft Word greatly facilitates this process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

It does not have extensions or add-ons for free office suites, such as OpenOffice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

The management and administration of large repertoires of bibliographic materials, in addition to their organization for review and analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Citavi?

I use Citavi for my scientific work in research. citavi has a cloud access which I think is great. The application runs extremely reliably. If questions arise, there is a wide range of tutorials and communities. I think it has become the benchmark in reference management. I had direct email contact with the specialists from citavi for specific questions. They are very friendly and very helpful. In the meantime I have collected and categorized over 2000 sources via citavi. These can be called up directly via my Word document in a separate integrated button. I would like to claim that citavi made significant progress with my dissertation. My fellow students are also impressed by Citavi. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

no idea about this matter. if you use it you cant leave it :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Citavi:

try it. the first time it looks like little complicated but every point is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the meantime I have collected and categorized over 2000 sources via citavi. These can be called up directly via my Word document in a separate integrated button. I would like to claim that citavi made significant progress with my dissertation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Citavi?

Best technical support experience so far!

Fast response, friendly, caring, just perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

There is nothing to mention............. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

Writing academic papers with Citavi, Reference/source management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Citavi?

That you have the complete literature that you used for the essay in a list. Quotations are easy to make with the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

The price seems to be a little bit too high for my expectations but overall it is worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Citavi:

It makes the publication and work on a professional level a lot easier. I recommend it to anybody that has serious intentions on publicate a science work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are publicating science papers for marketing with this tool and it is very handy. A nice overview is granted if you use this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Citavi?

With Citavi it is quite easy to manage the project, avoid chaos and always have a standard citation format. It is very helpful software which allows to always keeping an overview of the project. Once you are familiar with the system of citavi, there are almost no limits in support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

It takes some time to get used to the software as it is very big. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Citavi:

Give it a try and I am sure citavi will meet all the expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it for academic research papers and as a storage for all my citations and PDF's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Grinal C.
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What do you like best about Citavi?

Love that I can get my bibliographies done within minutes. It saves so much time and energy which was of importance to write my client reports to meet the deadlines. Gives me great confidence with the reports I have prepared. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

Not being able to sync word format. Had some issues with couple of citations, other than that I am happy with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Citavi:

It's worth trying it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

I make oncology screening reports for my clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Citavi?

Citavi is a great software to manage knowledge and to avoid chaos in citing. I can recommend it to students and scientists and everyone else who wants to organize research and whatever kind of publications or knowledge. The use of the software is easy to learn and when something is unclear, the user will find answers in the user forum or in the great other support tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

Unfortunately Citavi only works with windows. I'm looking forward to the web version! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Citavi:

Invest 2 hours of your time to get to know Citavi and its functions and it will save you valuable time in organizing your knowledge for the rest of your life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm giving Citavi seminars to students. Nearly 100% of the students are using Citavi writing their papers or thesis after having visited this seminars. They can concentrate on the content and let Citavi do the citation style stuff. It helps them to understand how scientific writing works.

I'm using Citavi in my daily work too, to keep track of my research regarding scientific writing, citing and other topics of my seminars in information literacy. I even use Citavi to manage my private DVD collection at home. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Citavi?

It is easy to format references in an article to meet any publisher's demands. It is also easy to create bibliographies for students.

I also like the ease with which I can quote sources and the fact that all citations in my documents appear in the Bibliography. What is more, it is easy to edit the citations, much easier than, for example, in programs that come with document writer programs.

It also helps my students organize their reading assignments and notes so that they can better prepare for exams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

I wish there were a way to sync my references across folders. It would also be helpful if there were a way to sync between computers. Only being able to have two downloaded versions of the program is quite difficult if one is moving between computers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Citavi:

The free trial is a great opportunity to get to know that project. Once you hit 100 articles, you know it is time to buy.

Also, citavi's lifetime membership is comparable to a year or so with the competition. Then again, after a couple of years you will want to purchase an update; however, you do not HAVE to. This is a significant difference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

Citavi has helped me prepare articles for publication and bibliographies for my students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Susan (Elli) E.
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What do you like best about Citavi?

It's hard to think of just one -- so I won't. It's easy to add references, easy to categorize them and use the category system to organize papers and book-length work. I use a bibliography project to easily organize reading from web pages, too. It interfaces easily with Word documents... and much more. The tech support has been great. When I first set up work in Citavi, the tech support provided a beta version of a utility to convert my bibliographic entries from another less-used program. I may have used tech support once or twice in the past few years since then. The issue was always resolved within 24 hours.

This is a great program for academics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

A couple of journals I write for were missing from the options for formatting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Citavi:

Try it and see if it works for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used it for academic research. It was also great for organizing briefing materials on various issues when I was running for office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Citavi?

I first purchased Citavi in 2012 and when I reached out to their Customer Service (CS) I was impressed with the level of assistance I was provided. I was asking for a feature that had not yet been developed but one of their CS reps developed a work around so that I could still accomplish my task. Ever since then I was a dedicated customer of Citavi and have purchased every major upgrade as they become available. I have recommended Citavi to a colleague who purchased it for her university lab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

I have been completely happy with the all the work the Citavi team have provided with each upgrade that I cannot think of anything I dislike about the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Citavi:

I would highly recommend Citavi to others. It is easy to use and the company is constantly working on updates. I first purchased it at 3.0 it is now at 5.2! And the Customer Service is absolutely priceless! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

I love the convenience of being able to keep all my citations in one program and attach my PDF files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.