Citavi

Spec sheet

Purpose

Citavi combines reference management, knowledge organization, and AI-powered insights for research writing.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Intended users

The product is presented for students, researchers, faculty, academic writing, literature reviews, and research projects; online individual licensing is aimed at teams of up to 10.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Trial

Citavi offers separate free 30-day trials for Citavi Windows and Citavi Web, each including 1 GB of storage.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Security

Lumivero says it aligns its solutions to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001; Citavi’s product page also offers an on-premise DBServer option for organizations.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Support

Citavi support includes a knowledge base, community forum, support tickets, and live chat.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

AI features

Its AI assistant can summarize text, generate article key insights, and search for papers using a topic described in plain language.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Browser tools

Browser Pickers capture references, quotations, and images from webpages or PDFs.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Citation styles

Citavi offers over 11,000 citation styles and lets users switch, upload, or customize styles.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Collaboration and storage

Teams can share cloud projects with assigned roles and tasks in real time, and projects can be stored in the cloud, on a local drive, or on an institutional server.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Knowledge organization

Users can save quotations, summaries, comments, and images linked to references and organize ideas into outlines.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

NVivo integration

Citavi can export references and insights to NVivo, but changes in Citavi do not automatically sync and require re-sharing the project.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Reference gathering

It imports books, articles, PDFs, and webpages and can search library catalogs and academic databases.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Trial requirement

The maker says no credit card is required to start a free trial.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Writing integration

The Citavi Word Add-In inserts citations and builds bibliographies in Microsoft Word; Google Docs use is described as copying and pasting formatted citations and bibliography entries.Read 3 Oct 2026 · lumivero.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Reference Management Software#21 of 267.8
• Citation Management Software#20 of 237.8