Thank you Julien for your reply. The problem has been solved in the meantime. The reason was after reinstalling Lyx after formatting my computer, the bibtex didn't get refreshed, even though it didn't show in the lyx editor. For people who will have this problem in the future, just perform a manual update for each citation to solve this problem.
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 18:37, Julien Rioux <jri...@physics.utoronto.ca>wrote: > On 27/07/2010 7:14 AM, Nan Zhao wrote: > >> Dear Lyx users, >> >> While writing my thesis, I am facing a problem with the bibliography >> natbit >> within lyx. I am constantly having an "(author?)" in front of each >> citation >> I am using in the text. If anyone would know how to solve this issue, I >> would very grateful. >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Nan >> >> > Hi, > > Are you using bibtex? > > When you use author-year citation style (which you can set in Documents > > Settings), you also need to use a bibtex style (which you set by clicking on > your bibtex bibliography) which is author-year compatible, plainnat.bst for > example. > > If you don't use bibtex, I guess you have to format your bibliography > entries in a special way, but I wouldn't know exactly what format you have > to use. > > -- > Julien >
