Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing
I've been running it for a few hours and it works fine here, thanks! It continually uses a few per mills CPU even when hidden, but not more than 1.6.4.1 . Cheers! Christian
Solution: APA citation style in Lyx with Biblatex
Hello,
Ages ago I asked this list about how to do APA references for my
thesis, and since with rgheck's help I ended up with a method that
seems to be working properly I figured it might be useful for someone
else:
install Biblatex:
http://amychr.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/how-to-install-biblatex/
install biblatex-apa:
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-apa.html
look in the documentation for instructions, section 2 of
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa/biblatex-apa.pdf
step 1 of http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
texhash
reconfigure Lyx
In the document you want to use APA for:
steps 4 & 5 of http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
add the following to your preamble:
\usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex}
\bibliography{/path/to/your/bibliography} %without the .bib ending;
% multiple \bibliograpy entries are possible for several bib files
% the following command transform the natbib citation commands into
apa/biblatex
% citation commands:
\def\citet{\textcite}
\def\citep{\parencite}
\def\citealp{\nptextcite}
now you can use the normal Lyx natbib interface to add citations.
Re: Apacite and Lyx
Thanks, that's a good start. Now Apacite also uses different brackets
for comments on the reference (like "e.g.") than Lyx's natbib
( \citeA[post]{ref} vs. \cite[pre][post] ). Is there a way to
redefine these as well? The problem with apalike is that it does not
quote all authors the first time an article with >2 authors is quoted.
Cheers,
Christian
On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:33 AM, rgheck wrote:
On 07/21/2009 05:02 PM, Christian Brodbeck wrote:
Hello,
I need citations according to APA standard for a thesis. Does
anyone have experience with that?
From what information I could find, apacite would do it, but I
could not find any information online on how to get it to work with
Lyx.
Specifically, apacite seems to use different latex comands. Apacite
requires \cite for notmal citation and \citeA for citation in text
(parentheses only around year). However, Lyx generates either only
\cite command (default bibliography) or \citet and \citep for
natbib, and uses a different parenthesis structure for additional
arguments.
Does anybody know a way to work around this?
In principe it seems like it should not be difficult to add the
option to Lyx to write \citeA instead of \citep commands. I myself
can only program python though (if that function would actually be
acessible in python could anyone point me to where I coud find it?).
If that's all it would take, you could put
\let\citep=\citeA
in your preamble. That makes \citep a kind of alias for \citeA. If
that doesn't work, maybe you could produce some slightly more
complicated redefinition of \citep that would work.
That said, did you try choosing apalike as your citation style? I
don't know how close that will get you
Right now, producing new bibliography formats is kind of
complicated. I have been meaning to work on that, but have had too
much else to do.
rh
Apacite and Lyx
Hello, I need citations according to APA standard for a thesis. Does anyone have experience with that? From what information I could find, apacite would do it, but I could not find any information online on how to get it to work with Lyx. Specifically, apacite seems to use different latex comands. Apacite requires \cite for notmal citation and \citeA for citation in text (parentheses only around year). However, Lyx generates either only \cite command (default bibliography) or \citet and \citep for natbib, and uses a different parenthesis structure for additional arguments. Does anybody know a way to work around this? In principe it seems like it should not be difficult to add the option to Lyx to write \citeA instead of \citep commands. I myself can only program python though (if that function would actually be acessible in python could anyone point me to where I coud find it?). Best, Christian
