Importing a BibTeX File

Citavi can import and export bibliographic information in BibTeX format. A typical BibTeX entry looks like this:

@book{Handke.2006,

year = {2006},

title = {The virtual linguistics campus: Strategies and concepts for successful e-learning},

address = {M\"unster},

publisher = {Waxmann},

isbn = {978-3-8309-1689-5},

editor = {Handke, J\"urgen and Franke, Peter}

}

Many web-based databases support direct export to Citavi. See Searching Web Resources.
If you have a BibTeX file (with the .bib file name extension) on your computer already, double-click it to start the import or drag it into the navigation pane in the Reference Editor.

When you import a BibTeX file to Citavi, the fields are mapped as follows:

For chapters:

BiBTeX	Citavi (Interner Feldname)
crossref	ParentReferenceID
parentreferencetype	ParentReferenceReferenceType
booktitle	ParentReferenceTitle
year	ParentReferenceYear
chapter	Title
number	ParentReferenceNumber
series	ParentReferenceSeriesTitle
address	ParentReferencePlaceOfPublication
edition	ParentReferenceEdition
isbn	ParentReferenceIsbn
organization	ParentReferenceOrganizations
institution	ParentReferenceOrganizations
publisher	ParentReferencePublishers
editor	ParentReferenceEditorsFullName