Citavi's core features are reference management, knowledge organization, and task planning.

Reference management

Search in thousands of databases and library catalogs from within Citavi

Organize references

Annotate and automatically rename PDF files

Batch import PDF files and import their metadata automatically

Find fulltext to references

Collaborate with others on a local network (no need to have your data in the cloud)

Import from other reference management programs and formats, including RIS and BibTeX

Import ISBNs, DOIs and PubMed-IDs on web pages with a click

Import web pages with a click

Transform web pages into PDF files to save their content

Work seamlessly with Word (versions from 2003)

Send references to Open Office and LibreOffice Writer and any program that can process files in RTF (i.e. Scrivener)

Use with LaTeX editors

Create subject bibliographies with a click

Publish in all common citation styles. Styles for journals can be requested" target="_blank" for free

Integrated citation style editor

Advanced style finder

Integrated quick help

Interface and quick help in seven languages (English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish)

Knowledge organization

Import text excerpts and images from documents as quotations and organize them together with summaries, comments and own ideas imported as "thoughts"

Quotations, summaries, comments and thoughts can be outlined directly in Citavi to reflect the structure in chapters of the publication prior to the actual writing, thus permitting to separate the construction of the argumentative structure from the actual writing process

Task planner

Schedule tasks related to titles (order, photocopy, extract citations, read, check, ...) and milestones

Print lists of to do lists with a click