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Compose Your Masterpiece
Session 8
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 In the last class, you learned how to create a compilation of your categorized quotations and thoughts. Of course, at some point you'll want to be able to hand in something a bit more polished.
Use Citavi's Add-In for Microsoft Word to produce a publication with properly formatted citations and a matching bibliography that will make even the sternest professor proud.
Getting Started
To get started, open Word and click the Citavi tab. Then, click Citavi pane and assign a project to your document. After that, select the citation style you want to use. Although you can change the citation style at any time, it's important to decide at the beginning whether you want to use a footnote style or an in-text style before you start writing, since certain types of styles cannot be converted to other style types.
Inserting References
Once you're done setting up, the real fun begins. Don't believe us? Just double click a reference. Citavi inserts the properly-formatted citation and creates a bibliography at the end of your document. This list is updated in real-time whenever references and knowledge items are added or removed. Knowledge items can be inserted just as easily, and when you change your citation style, all of your citations and your bibliography are updated as well. We're pretty humble, but we think the Add-In for Word might just change your life.
Alternate Formatting
But wait — what if you need references in a different format or want to insert page numbers? As you would expect from Citavi, that's possible as well! Select your reference, then click Insert advanced for additional formatting options, the ability to add prefixes and suffixes, and options for page numbers. Alternatively, you can click the citation and switch to the Citations tab if you need to change a citation later on.
Using the Chapter View
If you created categories with Citavi, you can insert them into your document and then use the Chapter tab to work with only the references and knowledge items assigned to a certain category. This helps you focus only on what's important in the section you're currently working on. Your paper won't write itself, but this is about as close as you'll get.
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Extra Credit: Project Bibliographies
If you just want to create a list of all the references in your Citavi project, click File > Print project bibliography. Please note that this feature does not create a list of works actually cited in your paper. For that, follow the steps above.
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