Rich, http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/biblio/bibtex/contrib/authordate/authordate3.bst
shows FUNCTION {emphasize} { duplicate$ empty$ { pop$ "" } { "{\em " swap$ * "}" * } if$ } so if you replace that with FUNCTION {emphasize} { duplicate$ empty$ { pop$ "" } { "\emph{" swap$ * "}" * } if$ } and similar for \bf and so on you will probably find that your issues go away :-)-O el On 2019-08-25 00:24 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > I did not write "in that director". > > You are using gensymb.sty which is not included. I noticed it comes > from the was package which once can install with tlmgr. Remove this and > run again, just to be sure that this is not the cause, but it's hardly > likely to be. > > Then you are using /home/rshepard/documents/jabrefdb as the BIB file, > which is not included. > > And finally you are using authordate3 as Bibliography style > (authordate3.bst?) which is not included. > > I am quite sure we'll find that in authordate3.bst there are some > occurrences of the old commands. > > sudo find / -name 'authordate*' > > comes to mind. > > el > > On 2019-08-24 16:39 , Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> >>> Don't look in the LyX source. send me the BST file that is being >>> used, the dabatase for the ciation and the STY file, together with >>> the MWE. >> >> el, >> >> There is no BST file in that directory, only the .lyx file. >> >> One of the JabRef devs responded to my post on the mail list. There >> have been many changes in recent versions. Also, it might be the >> reference format style. >> >> So, I have the latest development version and will try that as well as >> trying different authordate styles. >> >> Thanks for the offer, >> >> Rich >> -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) e...@lisse.na / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 / Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/