My problem is not primarily with creating new documents. It is mainly with getting existing LyX documents (that have been transferred to my new computer) to appear with the references in them when LyX creates pdf files from them. At present the pdf versions of these documents have no references at the end, and every citation in the text is replaced with a question mark inside of square brackets. I have been partly successful in doing what Ray suggests with NEW documents:
Start LyX, create a new empty document, insert > list > bibliography, select your four bib files, press OK, now type something and press the Bib icon, you should be able to select an entry from all four bib files. Now preview the document. You should see "foo [n]" or "foo (xyz, d)", and just one entry in the references. If you cannot reproduce this, you are looking at a bug, most probably in your installation. However, (1) I can't add more than two of my four .bib files to any new or existing document. The program simply ignores the third and fourth. (2) When I do succeed in adding one or two .bib files to an existing document, some but not all of the citations in the body of the document connect to the cited reference, even though that reference is in the .bib files that have been added to the document. These renegade citations still show up as [?] in the pdf. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeis...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 June 2012 02:05, William Hanson <whan...@umn.edu> 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. > > All bibliographic data are available on a per-document basis, and > references will only appear _as cited_. This means there will not be > any reference entry at the end of the document for any works _not_ > cited. For child documents, citations can be seen only in the master > preview. > > Start LyX, create a new empty document, insert > list > bibliography, > select your four bib files, press OK, now type something and press the > Bib icon, you should be able to select an entry from all four bib > files. Now preview the document. You should see "foo [n]" or "foo > (xyz, d)", and just one entry in the references. If you cannot > reproduce this, you are looking at a bug, most probably in your > installation. > > > -- > GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1 >
