LyX ⇒ (author?) missing for citation style alpha

[randallr]

I'm having some issues trying to get my citations to look right. They seem to be working almost correctly except for the fact that if I select the citation style "author (year)", for example "Beason (2008)", I get "(author?), [Bea08]", regardless of who that actual author is. How do I fix this?

I can work around it by selecting the citation style "(author, year)" and adding the author to the text myself, but it would be nice to get it working properly.

[kaiserkarl13]

You'll need to provide us with a working example. My guess is that you haven't declared the author field correctly, but I need to see what you have before I can help.

Please read the "read this before posting" sticky threads at the top of each forum; they tell you how to create such examples and why they're useful. Welcome!