Reference management with Citavi

Citavi 7 manual (English)

Citavi Web is available to all members of the University of Erfurt as part of the campus licence for Citavi.

Registration with the Citavi account and access at: https://citaviweb.citavi.com/

Further information and instructions in the Citavi Web manual: https://www1.citavi.com/sub/manual-citaviweb/de/index.html

Citavi Quick Start Guide (pdf)

Citavi manual

Tutorial: Introduction to scientific work with Citavi 6 (pdf)

Literature management at a glance

Instructions for importing references from the online catalogue (pdf)

Citavi video channel (YouTube)

Citavi offers general support

The University Computer and Media Center (URMZ) of the University of Erfurt offers a campus licence for Citavi for members of the university. This allows the use of Citavi on all personal devices and USB sticks. The licence data for the campus licence can be accessed by providing an email address for the University of Erfurt: http: //www.citavi.com/uni-erfurt

Use the campus licence of your university

1. Install Citavi Trial (30 days)
2. Go to citavi.com/uni-erfurt. You will be taken to the form where you can register for your Citavi account.
3. Start Citavi. Click on the login icon at the top right of the start window
4. Enter your email address and password for your account. Citavi will retrieve the licence information from your account.

Citavi is installed on all PCs and terminals at Erfurt University Library.

Citavi always runs under Windows (e.g. Citavi 5 from Windows Vista).
For other operating systems, we recommend the free programme Zotero or Mendeley.

A virtualisation solution is required to use Citavi on a Mac. Further information can be found in the Citavi manual

Citavi 3.4 can be run on Linux with Wine, but unfortunately not the current version.

The Citavi Picker allows you to quickly pick up bibliographic data from catalogues, databases, the Internet or PDF documents using identification numbers such as ISBN or DOI. It is automatically installed when Citavi is installed and works for the following applications:

• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader

If it is not automatically displayed in the browser, the picker must be activated, e.g. in Firefox in the menu Extras - AddOns. Detailed information can be found in the Citavi manual

The Word Add-In isavailable from Citavi version 4. MS Office version 2003 or higher is required.

The Citavi Add-In appears in the Word menu bar after installing Citavi. If it is not displayed, it can be activated under File - Options - Add-Ins.

There are several reasons why the Word Add-In is not displayed in the application, solutions and suggestions can be found in a Citavi overview article.

The University of Erfurt's current campus licence for Citavi runs until 31.05.2025.

If the University of Erfurt renews the licence agreement, your licence data will also be automatically renewed. You do not need to do anything.

If you leave the University of Erfurt or your campus licence expires, you can purchase your own licence in the Citavi Shop to continue working with Citavi.

Citavi and Citavi Web have been owned by a US company(Lumivero) since 2021, so your personal data may be transferred to the USA. The USA is not a safe third country within the meaning of EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. It cannot be ruled out that US authorities may process, analyse and permanently store your data on US servers. You and we have no influence on this further processing of your data.

For students of the University of Erfurt, the use of Citavi is therefore always voluntary and cannot be made mandatory for study purposes.

A data protection-sensitive and free alternative for literature management is Zotero, a software for the Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, which can be used either as a browser extension or desktop version.