How to number citations in the bibliography

Question

I use lyx , elsevier class. I choose the citations to be natbib/numerical, style : plainnat. The citations in the produced pdf are not numbered. I am not sure how to number the citations. The lyx exported latex code is shown blow.

    %% LyX 2.1.4 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
    %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
    \documentclass[10pt,authoryear]{elsarticle}
    \usepackage{fontspec}
    \usepackage{geometry}
    \geometry{verbose,tmargin=1in,bmargin=1in,lmargin=1in,rmargin=1in}
    \usepackage{color}
    \usepackage{array}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{setspace}
    \usepackage{esint}
    \doublespacing

    \makeatletter

     %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
    %% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
    \providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}

    \usepackage{geometry}
    \usepackage{caption}
    \captionsetup{labelfont=large}
    \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}

    \makeatother

    \begin{document}
    {\large{}\bibliographystyle{kluwer}
    \bibliography{citation}
    }{\large \par}
    \end{document}

With a minimal test case I get numbered citations, can you add the exported LaTeX code and/or the .lyx file to your question? (Remove all the content except for a citation or two first, so best make a copy.) — Torbjørn T., Oct 12 '15 at 20:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '15 at 21:09

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You seem to have added authoryear to the class settings, which are found in Document --> Settings --> Document class. elsarticle loads natbib with the numbers option (for numerical citations), but authoryear overrides this. Removing that should fix the issue.

By the way, there are three bibliography styles specifically for Elsevier documents, so you would probably want to set elsarticle-num as the bibliography style.

answered Oct 12 '15 at 21:09

Torbjørn T.

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So I removed the author year. it does the trick. But the problem is that in the text , instead of showing Ray(1997), it shows [15] for that citation. Can I have author year in the text , but also number the references in the bibliography section. I hope I am clear. – Yan Song Oct 12 '15 at 21:26
@YanSong Yes, you're clear, but you might have mentioned that (somewhat unusual) request before. It has been asked a few times before, but all the solutions I've seen use biblatex, e.g. Bibliography style: name and year in text + alphabetically ordered and numbered list at the end How to get a numbered alphabetical bibliography with (author,year) citations – Torbjørn T. Oct 12 '15 at 22:08
This is the first I ask this question. But I will check the list of questions you provided. Thanks – Yan Song Oct 13 '15 at 01:20
So I read a bit about this issue. I could not seem to find a solution. Can you explain how to do this in lyx. – Yan Song Oct 13 '15 at 03:16
@YanSong Sorry, it is not clear at all from your original question that that was what you wanted. Are you willing to switch to biblatex? There is some info on setting up LyX for biblatex in How do I make my bibliography according to harvard-style (author-year, alphabetical by sourcetype...) in Lyx? If you manage to do that, then applying e.g. the solution from the second question above should be straightforward. – Torbjørn T. Oct 13 '15 at 06:12

How to number citations in the bibliography

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