I gave it another try, and I got it finally! I have to press C-u and then return (not just C-u), then the helm menu to chose the citation type pops up
Thanks again, Andreas John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > Andreas Reuleaux writes: > >> But what does not currently work for me (and what used to work): >> getting a choice of citation: cite/citep/citeauthor/nocite/whatever. > > To get this, you press C-u enter on the candidate you select, and that > should give you a new helm selection for citation type. This is > currently only possible in the helm backend. I am not sure if it can be > done with ivy yet.