Setting Up Citavi

Citavi offers many customizable options.

Selecting Catalogs

When you first start Citavi, several catalogs are already selected for online search. You can easily add more, for example, the catalog of your university library.

To add another catalog or database for online search, in the Reference Editor, click Online search and then click Add database or catalog.

To add catalogs for ISBN searches, on the Tools menu, click Options. On the Search tab, on the ISBN download tab, click Add database or catalog.

To find out whether a book is available at your library and where it is located, add your library catalog to Citavi's location search. On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Search tab, switch to the Location search tab and click Add database or catalog.

Customizing the Overview

You can decide which bibliographic information is most important to you and include just those fields on the Overview tab. In the Reference Editor, on the Overview tab, click Customize overview and select the checkboxes for the fields you want to appear.

Choosing Project Colors

If you work with multiple projects, you may find it handy to give each one a different color so you can tell them apart at a glance. On the Tools menu, point to Project color and click a color.

Using Citavi with TeX

If you use TeX to create publications, you can use Citavi with your TeX editor. To start, on the Tools menu, click Options. Then click General and select the TeX support checkbox. Click Customize to change the rules that Citavi uses to create BibTeX Keys.

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