Hi, I am writing my thesis in the book (KOMA-script) - class, and need my citations in author-year style in the text (e.g., xxx (Freud 1928, 15) xxx), and sorted by author (not numbered) in the bibliography. I am maintaining my literature-database in citavi, from where I can export the references into .bib documents. I am working with Lyx 1.6.2 on windows, and I did not use a bibtex-editor or anything like that.
In Document > Settings > Bibliography I chose natbib with author-year style. I inserted the Bibliography through Insert > List/TOC..., where I uploaded my .bib-file. When I choose the style "plain", creating a pdf works without problems, but the Bibliography shows up using numbers, both in the Text - e.g.: [2, 192] - and in the Bibliography, which is not what I want. All the other styles I've tried (natbib, plainnat, apacite, ...) produce various error messages when I create a PDF, and in the PDF the Bibliography is all garbled up (Authors' names appear several times, the German Umlaut-Letters like ö/ä/ü are not printed, formatting is messed up, etc.). I have been looking for a solution for hours now, and I am just not sure where my problem lies or what to do next. Should I try changing the document settings in Lyx (in the Preamble, for example)? Or do I need a program to edit the bib-file? Which program would be easy to use on windows? Or could the problem be that my .bib-file is not configured right? I hope for someone with more experience it is easier to tell where I went wrong... :-) Thank you so much for your help! Lea
