Adding Multiple Books by ISBN Number

If you have a list of books containing ISBN numbers, you can easily add all of the referenced books to Citavi, regardless of whether the list is a Web page, a text file or a spreadsheet. You can also use a bar code scanner to quickly compile a list of ISBN numbers.

Entering Multiple ISBN Numbers By Hand

1.On the References menu, click Retrieve by ISBN or other identifier, or click Retrieve by ISBN in the toolbar.

2.Enter the ISBN number in the Manual entry field, and then click Add. Repeat for each ISBN.

3.Citavi searches all of the selected catalogs. The bibliographic information is taken only from the first source that contains the reference. Make sure you have an active Internet connection.

4.Click Add to project to add all the references found to the current project.

If you consistently have no results, you may want to change the selected catalogs. Choose catalogs that are a better match (by subject or location) for your references, then run the search again.

Importing a List of ISBN Numbers from the Clipboard

1.Copy the list of ISBNs to the Clipboard.

2.On the References menu, click Retrieve by ISBN or other identifier, or click Retrieve by ISBN in the toolbar.

3.Click Text from Clipboard, then click Paste from Clipboard.

4.Citavi searches all of the selected catalogs. The bibliographic information is taken only from the first source that contains the reference. Make sure you have an active Internet connection.

5.Click Add to project to add all the references found to the current project.

Importing a List of ISBN Numbers from a Text File

1.On the References menu, click Retrieve by ISBN or other identifier, or click Retrieve by ISBN in the toolbar.

2.Select Import file.

3.Click Choose file and select the file containing the list of ISBN numbers. It must be in one of the following formats:

•Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx)

•OpenDocument Text, used primarily by OpenOffice.org Writer (.odt)

•Rich Text Format (.rtf)

•HTML (.htm or .html)

•PDF (.pdf)

•Plain text (.txt)

4.Citavi searches all of the selected catalogs. The bibliographic information is taken only from the first source that contains the reference. Make sure you have an active Internet connection.

5.Click Add to project to add all the references found to the current project.

 

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