Guido, You can do all of these things and many more by using the package natbib.
If you haven't got it installed, install it. At the end of your document where you have your BibTeX Generated References, use the style plainnat . The plainnat.bst file comes with natbib and can be used to replace the plain.bst file. Then to use the package you just put in your preamble \usepackage{natbib} The only complication is that you can't utilise all the features of natbib by just using Insert --> Citation Reference. (I believe that in LyX 1.2 more natbib features are supported in this way) If you do Insert --> Citation Reference, you will get Jones et al. (1990) (I believe this is one of the options you wanted) If you would like some other options you need to use a bit of ERT. At the point in your document where you would like your reference, instead of doing Insert --> Citation Reference, type in ERT; \citet {jon90} (where jon90 is they key in your references database) and you will get the same style as above \citep{jon90} and you will get " (Jones et al.,1990) " \citealt{jon90} and you will get " Jones et al. 1990 " (the second option you wanted ) Natbib is very powerful, and there are hundreds of options. I suggest printing out the documentation that comes with natbib, and they are fairly easy to work out from that. I hope this has been of some help Nick On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:10:am, Guido Milanese wrote: > This is slightly OT, and in fact I posted this question to the TeX > list, but i had no answer -- that's why i take the liberty to ask > this question here. > > I am looking for a BibTeX style of the author-date type, but with no > parenthesis added before and after the entry. I tried also the > authordate series, but the problem remains. > The format should be as such: > > ...as noticed by Wright:1992 and by Maltby:1991. > > or > > ...as noticed by Wright (1992) and by Maltby (1991). > > but not as follows: > ...as noticed by (Wright:1992) and by (Maltby:1991). > > Thank you very much. > gm > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Guido Milanese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua, Genova, Italia > Homepage: http://www.arsantiqua.org > + + + + + + NON NOBIS DOMINE + + + + + + + > ---------------------------------- -- ____________________________________ Nick Burgan Postgraduate Student Active Noise and Vibration Control Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367 ____________________________________