Reference Management Software

The University for Continuing Education provides its students and staff with the reference management software Citavi.

Citavi is a Windows-based software that you locally install on your PC, which then can either be used individually or as collaborate unit (i.e. team).

Install Citavi 6 for Windows. You can access the installation file on www.citavi.com/en/download.

Open a Citavi account under www.citavi.com/donau-uni. It is necessary to use your university e-mail address, e.g. first name.surname@donau-uni.ac.at (staff member) or first name.surname@edu.donau-uni.ac.at (students).

Open Citavi, and log into your Citavi account. The license data will be generated from the account.

The campus license is valid for the duration of your assignment/studies at University for Continuing Education Krems. Annually you are requested to authenticate your data in the Citavi account.

Tip: These videos are helpful for the introduction: Citavi 6: Ready, Set, Go!

A brief introduction can also be found in the Citavi manual.

Citavi is a Windows program. A Mac version does not exist, instead Citavi works on developing on a web version. To receive related information on the beta phase launch, you can subscribe to the Citavi mailing list.

Currently, Citavi is only accessible on the Mac by using a so-called virtual machine. This virtual machine provides a Windows environment you can work with on the Mac. So, what do you do? You open Citavi (and other Windows applications) on your Mac in a kind of "sandbox" to run your Mac and Windows applications in parallel.

See the manual for detailed instructions: Citavi 6: Installing on a Mac