New in Citavi 4

Insert your references in Word exactly as prescribed by your selected citation style. The bibliography is updated in real time with each added or deleted citation. Word documents created with the Citavi 3 Publication Assistant can be converted for use with the Word Add-In.

Automatically add books by ISBN number and articles by DOI address to your project. Add webpages as well as text and images.

If you use Windows with 120 DPI or 125% resolution, text in Citavi's user interface is now enlarged accordingly.

Search and replace is now available for text fields.

Citavi determines the gender of an author using the first name so that certain citation style requirements can be met (ders./dies. in German styles; id./ead./eid./eaed.). An active internet connection is required.

When using the Clipboard to insert names, names are automatically reversed if necessary. For example, "Michael Smith und John Loffler" are changed to "Smith, Michael; Loffler, John".

A new dialogue field for adding files makes it possible to link multiple files to a reference at once.

In addition to Citavi’s automatic file renaming feature, manual renaming of files is also possible from within Citavi.

You can now only show references with n stars or only show references that do not have a linked file.

In Citavi 3 the Category field was read-only; to enter new categories the Category form had to be opened. In Citavi 4 categories can be typed directly into the Category field.

Knowledge items can now be edited in-line by double-clicking and categories can be entered directly.

In the Knowledge Organizer, knowledge items can be automatically sorted according to various criteria.

The Citation Style Editor now makes it possible to define prefixes and suffixes for knowledge items. You can use this feature to automatically insert "cf." in front of indirect quotations.

Additional conditions, the option to combine custom conditions with those in Citavi, programmable compo­nents, programmable sort-orders for bibliographies, and additional settings for page ranges and places of publi­ca­tion are now available making it possible to fulfill the requirements of highly complex citation styles.

Citavi can now be displayed in Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English, German, French, Italian, and Polish. To change the language, click Tools > Change language.

Citavi 4 now uses the widely-used and robust InstallShield for the installation process.

Citavi 4 uses Microsoft's .NET Framework 4.5.

The manual now is divided into two main parts. Getting Started is composed of many online slideshows. Citavi in Detail covers more advanced features.