Setting Citation Style Properties

In the citation style properties you can define general settings. Three main types of styles are available: Reference number, in-text citation and footnote styles. Depending which type you choose, you have different options.

Select whether you want to use Reference number citations or Text citations.

Optional: Create a help text to describe the style's distinctive features. Enter the source information for the style guidelines you used to create the style.

Optional: Choose the language for the style and the citation system. Choose a subject area for the style.

For all styles: determine how the bibliography should look. For the font size, line breaks, and paragraph formatting, Citavi uses the "Standard" style in your document.

For citations using the author-date system: Set how the style should resolve ambiguous references. Ambiguous references can occur if you cite more than one reference by the same author published in the same year.

Most author-date styles require a letter to be appended to the year: Miller 2013a, Miller 2013b.

You often will want to support a finding or claim using multiple sources. Here you can set how the citation style should format multiple references.

Optional: Set whether teh style should automatically use prefixes or suffixes for certain types of quotations (for example: using the word "cf." in front of indirect quotations).

Set replacements for to avoid undesired punctuation problems.