Thanks! I'll see if I can manage to make it work and then I'll let you know.

Eduardo

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 2/22/11 4:38 PM, Eduardo de Oliveira Horta wrote:
>>
>> Hello LyX community,
>>
>> I'm facing a little problem which I'm sure is a recurrent (and
>> hopefully easy to solve) one.
>>
>> I have a .bib file with all my references, and I've added the
>> bibliography as usual through
>>
>> insert>  List/TOC>  BibTeX bibliography...
>>
>> The file exports to pdf as a charm, with all citations numbered,
>> within brackets and no author names. Ok. Now I would like my citations
>> to be formated as author-year. I've changed the citation style to
>> Natbib (in Document>  Settings>  Bibliography>  Citation Style). The
>> LyX file displays the citations correctly, but when I compile it to
>> pdf, they appear messy, like
>>
>> (author?) [1]
>>
>> for example. Interestingly, the link [1] takes me to the correct place
>> in the bibliography.
>>
>> Is there a way to overcome this issue?
>>
> This means that there is an error in your bib file that is preventing BibTeX
> from reading the author-year combination correctly. It can be many things
> that cause it, but a missing year is often the culprit. The best way to
> debug is to export to LaTeX and compile the file manually. Then you should
> see error messages sufficient to locate the problem.
>
> rh
>
>

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