Finding Reference Information by ISBN

The Picker icon automatically appears after every ISBN number it finds on a Web page. This works both for 10-digit and 13-digit ISBN numbers as long as you have not deactivated this feature on the Citavi Picker item of the right-click menu under Settings > General.

When you click the Picker icon, the Picker searches for the book's bibliographic information and saves it in your Citavi project. The Picker searches the databases that you have selected in Citavi under Options > Search > ISBN download.

Sometimes no bibliographic information is found. Often, this is because the databases selected for online search do not have any information on the item. Another cause is incorrect ISBN numbers on the Web page. If the ISBN number is incorrect, the Picker will either find nothing at all, or information for a different book.

Hint: If you have a long list of ISBN numbers, you do not need to add references one by one. Copy the whole list to the Clipboard. Open Citavi and click Retrieve by ISBN and then select Text from Clipboard. Citavi extracts the ISBN numbers from the text and adds the references to your project.

URL for this page: http://manual.citavi.com/en/?finding_reference_information_by_isbn.htm (Last updated: 27.10.2011 15:10:32)
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