Re: Author year in text citation

[Richard Heck]

On 06/30/2011 02:59 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Thomas  > wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am using Lxy 2.0 under Windows and I am using the Firefox Zotero
> plug in for my bibliography.
>
> I have the following problem.
>
> When trying to format in text citations as "Author (Year)" which I
> can choose right clicking the citation in Lyx the PDF (pdflatex)
> produces "(author?)" followed by the reference number in brackets.
>
> Citation style is Natbib and generator is bibtex.
>
> I tried various approaches suggested online but nothing works.
> Unfortunately, I am not even sure which of the many suggestions
> apply to my problem (if any).
>
> Any pointers are much appreciated!
>
> Thomas
>
>
> Thomas,
>
> I don't remember exactly why this happens.
>
The usual reason is that there is some kind of error in the BibTeX file
that is preventing a proper read of the file, at which point it defaults
to numerical citations, and you get weird errors. A very common reason
is that there are improperly encoded characters in the BibTeX file,
e.g., Unicode quotes or dashes. I do not myself know why programs that
claim to produce BibTeX files do not, by default, produce them in a
valid BibTeX encoding, which basically means ASCII. In any event, if you
are using Zotero, then you need to tell it to write the BibTeX file as
pure ASCII.

Note: This is not a LyX limitation, but a BibTeX one. There are 8-bit
BibTeX processors, and you can use something like biber instead, which
will handle Unicode. So telling LyX to use one of those instead of
bibtex (under Tools>Preferences>Output>LaTeX) is also an option.

Richard

Re: Author year in text citation

[Diego Queiroz]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Thomas  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am using Lxy 2.0 under Windows and I am using the Firefox Zotero plug in
> for my bibliography.
>
> I have the following problem.
>
> When trying to format in text citations as "Author (Year)" which I can
> choose right clicking the citation in Lyx the PDF (pdflatex) produces
> "(author?)" followed by the reference number in brackets.
>
> Citation style is Natbib and generator is bibtex.
>
> I tried various approaches suggested online but nothing works.
> Unfortunately, I am not even sure which of the many suggestions apply to my
> problem (if any).
>
> Any pointers are much appreciated!
>
> Thomas
>

Thomas,

I don't remember exactly why this happens.
But AFAICR, this is because you did not select a proper style for your
bibliography that supports Author Year citations.

I don't know what style you're using, but you can try to select another one,
like plainnat or apalike.
If I'm not wrong, the "plain" style (which is the LyX default), does not
support it.

If you're not sure what I am talking about, just select Insert > List / TOC
> BibTeX Bibloography..., in that window you are able to select your *.bib
database and a style (*.bst) to use.


Best regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

Author year in text citation

[Thomas]

Dear all,

I am using Lxy 2.0 under Windows and I am using the Firefox Zotero plug 
in for my bibliography.


I have the following problem.

When trying to format in text citations as "Author (Year)" which I can 
choose right clicking the citation in Lyx the PDF (pdflatex) produces 
"(author?)" followed by the reference number in brackets.


Citation style is Natbib and generator is bibtex.

I tried various approaches suggested online but nothing works. 
Unfortunately, I am not even sure which of the many suggestions apply to 
my problem (if any).


Any pointers are much appreciated!

Thomas