LyX ⇒ Missing Heading for References Section

[lyxrocks]

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1. the word "References" does not appear in my compiled PDF. I need it to indicate the beginning of the references.
2. when I insert a citation, it always shows an error.

I have attached the LyX and the PDF file.

[lyxrocks]

anyone?

[lyxrocks]

i know it's the summer...but i am working on my thesis, would be nice if someone could help!

[lyxrocks]

anyone?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I had to install LyX to verify the problem, and did that when I saw that nobody responded yet. You posted a complete small example, so it deserves to be tested.

I noticed, that there's no \bibsection. If you define it yourself, the heading for the list of references would be shown. You could add to your document preamble, via LyX menu / Document / Settings:

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\newcommand{\bibsection}{\section*{\refname}}

Regarding your second question: I recommend to use BibTeX, since you use natbib, instead of manually writing the list of references.

Stefan

[lyxrocks]

can you please show me a sample lyx file where one uses that? I can't seem to get it to work as I don't know much about latex in general.

[lyxrocks]

when i replied last i only saw the second half of your post somehow.

i just added \newcommand{\bibsection}{\section*{\refname}} to my preamble and it worked!

References now shows! thank you so much!

So my only question now is, what exactly do i need to do to switch to BibTeX from the default natbib? I am a noobie when it comes to latex, or computers in general...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If it works without BibTeX, and if you don't know it already and your bibliographies are not too complex, perhaps you don't need to change. Regarding BibTeX and LyX, here's a start: BibTeX in the LyX wiki. BibTeX is pretty complex, so it cannot be summarized in just a forum post.

Stefan

[lyxrocks]

thanks!