Rob Saunders wrote:
> Dear list:
>
> I am currently using natbib and apalike to format my Phd
> bibliography.
> All is working well! But I have two questions to save a bit of time
> and effort:
>
> 1. Is there someway to have Bibtex auto-sort multiple citations in
> alphabetical order when they appear in the text? Ie, entering (Bob,
> 1987; Sam, 2000; Fred, 1988) in Lyx but having Bibtex sort them in
> alphabetical order in the final document?
>
> 2. Currently using the above packages Insert-->Citation produces
> "Smith (1990)" and I need to enter \citep{smith} in ERT to get
> "(Smith, 1990)".
>
> Is it possible for me to change something in Lyx so that the latter
> format is default since I use this format the most? (I can then use
> \citet{smith} for the former when needed)
Rob,
recent versions of LyX (certainly 1.3 and maybe 1.2) have native
support for natbib. You need to turn it on in the Document dialog:
xforms frontend: Extra tab, use natbib checkbox
qt frontends: Bibliography leaf, some similarly named checkbox.
Thereafter the citation dialog will contain an _activated_ choice
that allows you to choose the style of the citation.
As for sorting the entries, read the natbib documentation. I think
that the option you're looking for is "sort". You can either export
the tex file and input this using your favorite text editor as
\usepackage[authoryear,sort]{natbib}
or you can use the document Options field in the dicument dialog.
Hope this helps,
Angus
