Maurice Viehweger wrote:
first problem:
my citation looks awful. at the moment the style is "plain", but i
want it to have more apa-like. i know theres also a predefined style
with that name, but it doesn't work properly (at least it seems so).
my preamble says:
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibpunct[: ]{(}{)}{,}{}{ }{;}
because a friend told me i could switch on apa-citation with that
settings. in the lyx settings i left it with the "standard" option in
the references settings.
so, what does my output look like?
e.g.: at the moment in lyx while writing it says "cooney:2005zl". when
i click on that cite i can switch through several styles. i chose
"cooney (2005). but when i insert my citations via footnote it looks
like "see (1), p. 204". why is that thing numbered anyway? i just want
it to look like what i chose in the citation-settings above.
at the end of the document i attached my references of course and they
look like:
[4] Kevin Cooney. Alternative visions of japanese security: The role
of absolute and relative
gains in the making of japanese security policy. Asian Perspective,
29(3):127–154, 2005.
i don't want my citations numbered, i want them ordered by the last
names followed by the usual information - more apa-like ;)
First, I'd just use apalike if that's what you want, and if you do, put
"\usepackage{apalike}" into your preamble and take out the other stuff.
Then go to Document>Settings>Bibliography and make sure you've got
natbib with Author-Year chosen. Actually, I guess you must have that if
you're seeing what you are in the citation dialog. But check anyway.
So second, my suspicion would be that there's some kind of error in your
BibTeX file. Maybe a missing year somewhere. BibTeX will just default to
numbered citations if there is such an error. The way to debug is to
export to LaTeX and then run everything by hand:
latex myfile
bibtex myfile
latex myfile
And maybe one more time, though LaTeX will tell you if you need it. I'm
guessing BibTeX will spit out some errors.
so beyond that i have a second question about editing the text in
predefined elements, e.g. "references". i'm writing my term paper in
german and i would like to change "references" into
"literaturverzeichnis". is that possible? how?
I don't know the best way, but putting this:
\renewcommand\refname{Literaturverzeichnis}
into your preamble should do it. That said, is the document language set
to German?
rh
