Short Titles, Citations, and Citation Keys

Short titles help identify a reference in a Citavi project

Every new reference you enter in Citavi is given a short title used to identify it within a project. The Citavi short title is not intended for use in your formatted paper.

Citavi automatically generates a short title for every reference, but you can change it at any time. Citavi creates the short title following this model: Bawden 2001 – Information and digital literacies. The last name is first, followed by the year of publication, then a dash, and then the first few words of the title. To change the short title, you can double-click it, or you can hover the mouse pointer over the short title that appears just below the toolbar. Or press Alt+Ctrl+S.