Bill, Once you insert a BibTex bibliography, you can click the "BibTex Generated Bibliography" grey rectangle and add more databases with the "Add" button at the top right corner of the dialog box that appears. Probably, you need more than one of your databases. Try adding all four.
Cheers, Manolo On 06/12/12 at 01:05pm, William Hanson wrote: > To All, > > I'm still having trouble getting LyX 2.0.3 to allow me to insert citations > into documents created on a new Dell (running Windows 7). (My old HP, > which runs Windows XP, has no trouble doing this). On the Dell LyX works > just fine until I click the Insert Citation tab. It brings up the usual > LyX: Citation window, but the Available Citation field is empty. > > However, my BibTeX folder contains four non-empty BibTeX Database (.bib) > files (the same ones I used earlier on the HP, and which I transferred to > the Dell via Mendeley). I've tried making my .bib files available to LyX > using insert > list / TOC > BibTeX bibliography. But no matter which of > my four .bib files I add, I'll get only one or two References showing up in > the final pdf. And I don't seem to be able to add more than one of my four > .bib files. Also the references that do show up are specific to that > particular document. When I go to another LyX document and try to add a > reference the Available Citation field is empty again. > > For more information on the problem, see the correspondence below. > > Bill Hanson > > > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Scott Kostyshak > <skost...@princeton.edu>wrote: > > > *From:* William Hanson [whan...@umn.edu] > > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:08 AM > > ** > > Bill, > > > > Please respond to the list so that others can see your message. This is > > good so that > > (1) if we get a solution it will be searchable by others that have this > > problem in the future > > (2) if we find a solution others will not be working to try to solve your > > problem when it is already solved, and > > (3) most people on this list know a lot more than I do so you're much more > > likely to get a solution. > > > > > > >Thanks. My BibTeX bibliography is empty, so that's the problem. But I > > can't seem to get my .bib files >into it. I don't know what you mean when > > you say I should make sure "my BibTeX folder is in the >path". What path? > > > > I don't know how to deal with this issue for Windows. You could search > > (using windows search) for files in your tex distribution (for example, > > search for .bib files) and put your BibTeX files there and hopefully that > > would be in the path. Or see below. > > > > > > >When I click "rescan" nothing happens. Clicking "browse" takes me to > > what looks like Windows >Explorer, but it won't let me do anything with my > > BibTeX folder. So I'm still stuck. > > > > This should work. What do you mean that it won't let you do anything with > > your BibTeX folder? You need to add the individual .bib files. Also, they > > must have the .bib extension otherwise they will not be found in that > > window. If they do not have the extension, you can just rename the files to > > add the extension to them. > > > > Does that work? > > > > Also, what version of LyX are you using? > > > > Scott > > --
