dripping digital

Recently I have been diving headfirst into using LyX as my primary document production environment. Nothing but love so far, as the beauty of TeX elicits an immediate response.

Yeah, that’s right: I’ve got the best looking notes in class.

Anyway, while typing up my new Digital Methods assignment, I decided to finally start using BibTeX for my bibliographies. In the process it became obvious that there is no immediately available MLA BibTeX style shipping with my LyX install. Luckily, my old friend Reed College has a solution.

So when you import your BibTeX database into LyX, select browse and look for the style you just unzipped from the archive you downloaded from the Reed site. That’s in Insert->List/ToC, if you are wondering like I was. Make sure you put \usepackage{natbib} in your pre-amble and use the following citation style (\citeauthor*{citekey} pagenumber).

Voila! Beautiful, easy citations. Never look at that damn MLA style guide again!

Tags: bibtex, LaTeX, lyx, mla

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