Importing PDF Files

You can import PDFs of scholarly articles directly into Citavi. For each PDF, Citavi creates a new reference and searches for its bibliographic information on www.crossref.org.

If the article is not available on Crossref, Citavi will try to extract the bibliographic information from the metadata in the PDF. Since metadata is often incomplete, you should always double-check the bibliographic information and make changes if necessary.

Importing a Single PDF

1.In the Reference Editor, on the File menu, click Import.

2.Select PDF files and click Next.

3.Select Single file,  click Browse to select the file, and then click Next.

4.Citavi performs an online search for the bibliographic information.

5.Click Add to project.

Importing Multiple PDFs

1.In the Reference Editor, on the File menu, click Import.

2.Select PDF files and click Next.

3.Select Folder of files, select the Include subfolders option if applicable, click Browse to select the folder, and then click Next.

4.Clear the checkboxes of any PDFs you don't want to import.

5.Citavi performs an online search for the bibliographic information.

6.Click Add to project.

Citavi saves copies of the imported PDFs in the CitaviFiles subfolder inside the project folder, normally Documents\Citavi 3\project name\CitaviFiles.

 

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