Meri Williams wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. In the Layout
> -> Document menu, I've chosen to use Natbib, in the Author-Year cite
> style. Then, where I've added my Bibliography at the end of the
> document, I've selected the format as apalike.
>
> This worked fine until today -- my citations were showing up as the
> variation on Author-Year that I chose and the Bibliography was
> correctly formatted. Sometime this evening when I was editing the
> document, the citations changed to numbers and so did the
> Bibliography!!
>
> I am completely confused. I haven't knowingly changed anything -- both
> the settings I mentioned above are still the same. The only thing I
> can think I did was I pasted in some content from a previous draft
> (but the bib there was formatted in the same way).
>
> Can anyone help me please? Is this a bug?
>
> The document I'm writing is my dissertation, which is due in 6 days,
> so I'd really appreciate any advice!
In cases such as this I'd suggest looking at:
1. The contents of the LyX file itself.
It's just text. You should find entries near the top of the document:
\use_natbib 1
\use_numerical_citations 0
and near the bottom
\begin_inset LatexCommand \BibTeX[plainnat]{../references}
2. The generated LaTeX file. (File->Export->Latex) which I'd hope would
contain the equivalent of
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
.
.
.
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{../references}
3. The output of the log file produced by the LaTeX compiler.
--
Angus
