LyX ⇒ How to manually create a bibliography?

[insipidtoast]

OK, so I've checked out what the bibliography environment does, and it is not what I want to do.

I need to make subsections within the bibliography...Headings (e.g. "Here are the references for Chapter 4:")

And I also want to make each reference the proper format (first line not indented, and subsequent lines indented)
Any creative ideas for how to do this?

Actually the last post in this thread seems similar to what I want to do http://latex-community.org/forum/viewto ... =44&t=5095 , however, I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the person. And it looks like they were using latex and not lyx. I'm using lyx. Furthermore, I don't think that's what I'm trying to do. I just wanted to point to their reference, because that's the style I'm trying to acheive: First line: non-indent; subsequent lines: indented.

I have all my references in a separate word document, and I just need to copy and past them into lyx, and apply the proper formatting.

[insipidtoast]

For what it's worth, I'll share my creative way for manually creating the bibliography.

It's a bit odd, but works and produces a nice output. Maybe you have a better way?

First I make a page break and then type "Bibliography." From the environment menu I select Chapter. I hit return and type the name of the section I'm referring to, and then change that name to bold.

(This next step really illustrates the quirkiness of Lyx.) Then I hit return. Lyx automatically indents the next line. It is important here NOT to uncheck the "indent paragraph" check box in the edit-paragraph settings menu.

I go to the list of references in word for the particular section I'm referring to, and type a number plus a period and then a space in word, before each reference.
(E.g. 1. Donner, Lily
2. Zouhar, Meg
3. Thurnbull, John.....etc, etc.)

Now, the reason NOT to uncheck the "indent paragraph" box is because when you copy and paste all the references from word (assuming you did not follow my instructions and decided to go ahead and uncheck the box) then the first reference will not be in the ideal format when previewed as a pdf. All the lines of the first reference will be indented.

Otherwise, following my instructions, the first and all the other references will have the first line un-indented and the subsequent lines indented, which is exactly what I want.

I didn't want the number in front of the references in lyx, so I simply highlighted each number and period, and then pressed Ctrl+Space. Bingo.

The pdf output looks great.