On 15 June 2012 03:17, William Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ray, > > > I'm trying to make progress by taking mini-steps. In trying to execute one > of your recommendations, I've hit a snag. Recently you said: > > "Choose an existing citation in your LyX document, note down its name > as seen there. For eg., "Michael1999". In Mendeley look for that > specific bibliographic entry, as close as you can remember. Then find > the field "Citation Key". The two must match." > > By "Mendeley" you mean Mendeley Desktop, right? In the LyX document I'm > most concerned with I can find, e.g., the citation "[Hanson2006]". And in > Mendeley Desktop I can find the exact bibliographic entry to which this > citation refers. But I don't see any field called "Citation Key" in > Mendeley Desktop. So I'm stuck at this point.
Both Mendeley Web and Desktop have a 'Citation Key' field. Otherwise, citations would have no unique identifier, and hence would not be usable in any application. In Web, it's Edit document details > Additional Fields. In Desktop, it's right below 'Tags' and 'Keywords'. If not, go to Options > Document Details and make sure 'Citation Key' is selected for every document type. It may be wise to make sure you're fully updated to the latest version of the program. > But moving on just one more mini-step, you continue the passage quoted above > as follows: > > > "If not, simply reselect the item in LyX bib dialogue from the > "Available Citations" pane and delete the old citation from the > "Selected Citations" pane" > > But this is what I'm simply unable to do, because I can't find any way to > get any file from my Mendeley Desktop into the "Available Citations" pane in > LyX. If only I could do that, I'm pretty sure I could solve my original > problem, namely, getting all the :"[?]"s in the pdf replaced with real > references. Look in Options > BibTeX. I personally have these checked: Escape LaTeX special characters Enable BibTeX syncing Create one BibTeX file per collection And a path where Mendeley will store the bib file(s) You may choose not to sync, in which case simply select a folder or the files you want and File > Export. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
