With the Citavi Assistant you can insert references, quotations, and thoughts from your cloud project into a Word document. The Citavi Assistant will automatically insert and format the citations for you and generate a bibliography in the citation style of your choice.

Technical requirements

Mac

• Office for Mac 365

Windows

• Windows 10 (at least version 1903)
• Office 2019 (at least version 2012, build 13530.20376 respectively 16.0.13530.20376) or Office 365 (at least version 1908)

Differences

	Assistant	Word Add-In
Installation	via Word	via Citavi Setup
Office compatibility	Word for Windows Word for Mac	Word for Windows
Citavi compatibility	Citavi Web	Citavi for Windows (Version 6 and later)
Data source	Cloud projects	Cloud projects Local projects Citavi for DBServer projects

The following features are not yet available in Citavi Assistant:

• Working with Word Online
• Switching between projects; only references from one project can be inserted in a Word document
• Selecting multiple references at once to insert as a multiple citation
• Deleting a reference from a multiple citation.
• Automatic insertion of a period at the end of a footnote
• Converting in-text citations to footnotes or vice versa
• The Assign Reference feature for adding references from the Word document to the Citavi project if they are missing
• Linking of in-text citations to their bibliography entry
• Saving of all bibliographic information for the cited references in the document as a sort of traveling library.
• Grouped bibliographies
• Converting fields to static text

The following feature can't and won't be added to the Citavi Assistant for technical reasons:

• Automatic backup copies of Word files