Creating and Saving Abstracts

An abstract provides a brief summary of the topic, the approach, the purpose, the most important findings and sometimes possibilities for future research. It should be written concisely and objectively. (Your own opinions and critical evaluations should be recorded under Comments.)

When writing an abstract, keep the following points in mind:

1.Briefly summarize the contents of the text by describing the main topic, arguments and scope.

2.Identify the work's context within the discipline: what lines of thinking does it continue? Which methods were used and/or what theoretical stance does the author take?

3.Determine the author's contributions to the research: what are the key contributions of the work? What are the author's major findings? What questions remain open for investigation?

Adding an Abstract

If you're writing an abstract yourself, put your name and the date in brackets at the beginning of the abstract so that you do not forget that you are the author.

1.In the Reference Editor, click the Contents tab.

2.Type the abstract into the Abstract field. To use text formatting (i.e. bolding, italics, etc.), click the blue Abstract label or press F9.

Adding an Existing Abstract from the Preview

Many journal articles in electronic form already include an abstract. If this is the case, you can easily copy it into Citavi.

1.Click the name of the linked file to show it in the preview pane.

2.Highlight the abstract in the preview pane.

3.In the preview pane, click Abstract.

Adding an Existing Abstract from Another Program

1.Copy the abstract to the Clipboard. In Citavi, switch to the Reference Editor.

2.In the Reference Editor, click the Contents tab.

3.Click in the Abstract field and on the Edit menu, click Paste, or press Ctrl+V.

4.If you want to format the text, click the Abstract label or press F9.

Hint: To preserve the formatting of the original text when pasting, press F9 to open the advanced text editor, and then press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste as formatted text. To remove all character formatting, press Ctrl+Spacebar. To remove all tabs and line breaks, press Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar.

URL for this page: http://manual.citavi.com/en/?creating_saving_abstracts.htm (Last updated: 04.05.2012 13:50:00)
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