Variable citation formatting

[the2ndlaw]

I just want to help other new users waste time like myself trying to get citations to work in LyX. Just a little bit of extra help makes lyz much more accessible to users and greatly reduce the barrier to entry.

Especially finding a way to get a variable citation formatting, as in Author (2009) and as opposed to the numerical [1] style that works (almost) out of the box, was a pain: I presume many other users want seamless Zotero + LyX integration, with flexible intext citation formatting, (e.g. Author, 2009 as opposed to numerical format as in [1]). It works perfectly! It's even more powerful than the Zotero Word plugin. I cannot thank you guys enough for maintaining this plugin but it took me some extra leg work to get there:

Basically, in the FAQ point 3: "Insert the BibTeX database into LyX document. See BibTeX and LyX" could use some elaboration.

So to elaborate:

1. in LyX go to Insert>List/TOC>BibTex Bibliography to insert a bibliography Out of the box, numerical citation formatting [1] works
2. To enable Author (2009) formatting with an APA style bibliography:

Select apalike2 stlye in the BibTex Bibliography menu (I had to download it first from http://www.ctan.org/pkg/apalike2, also note apalike instead of apalike2 as mentioned in the explanation only produced errors or incorrect results when compiling the pdf)

Go to Document>Settings>Bibliography, change citation style to Natbib (Author-year). Done.

Now one can change the formatting directly by clicking the citation and selecting the desired format. LyZ updates the Bibliography like a champ, I almost gave up on a completely automised reference management solution with latex but this works at the date of writing

[wshanks]

Thanks for the feedback on LyZ. The method you describe is how I usually add references to my LyX documents.

I always struggle with finding the right balance between being succinct enough that the reader reads all of the documentation and thorough enough that the reader gets all of the necessary documentation. I am pretty busy right now, but I will look into improving the passage in the readme. Would you recommend putting a version of your notes above into the readme, or replacing the "See BibTeX and LyX" sentence with links to relevant tutorials/documentation for BibTeX/LyX?

[the2ndlaw]

Yeah, I would recommend putting the info I wrote into the readme if it's indeed best practice and a link to LyX can't hurt since many users may come from zotero looking for a good LaTeX integration. Thanks!

On 21 June 2013 23:52, willsALMANJ notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the feedback on LyZ. The method you describe is how I usually add references to my LyX documents.

I always struggle with finding the right balance between being succinct enough that the reader reads all of the documentation and thorough enough that the reader gets all of the necessary documentation. I am pretty busy right now, but I will look into improving the passage in the readme. Would you recommend putting a version of your notes above into the readme, or replacing the "See BibTeX and LyX" sentence with links to relevant tutorials/documentation for BibTeX/LyX?

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