LyX 2.3.7 & BibLaTeX?

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2023, Bernt Lie via lyx-users wrote:

> While I'm waiting, I'm starting to use Zotero to manage bibliography
> files, and had some help from a more IT knowledgeable colleague. He set up
> Zotero to store bibliography files as BibLaTeX. Some experience:

>  1. In the past, I have used the AGSM bibliography style file. This style
> doesn't seem to work with BibLaTeX?? Is there another, similar
> bibliography style that works with BibLaTeX (i.e., Harvard style, etc.)??
> [One change from BibTeX to BibLaTeX seems to be change of field name
> "year" to field name "date"??)

>  2. One *bad* (?) experience with Zotero is that it *changed* all the
> bibliography *label* names. I assume this means that all past LyX/LaTeX
> documents I have written will show up with *broken* references if I switch
> to the new *.bib file generated by Zotero.

> To repeat: my question is:

>  *   Is there a BibLaTeX compatible bibliography style file with LyX 2.3.7
>    that works similarly to how AGSM works?
>  *   Or do I have to wait for LyX 2.4 for BibLaTeX compatibility?

Bernt,

I have been using JabREF for years so I don't know Zotero, but I'll try to
assist you.

What sort of data are your references? In my case they're all
ecological/environmental science and I use BibLaTeX (natbib-mode) as the
citation style format with Author-year format. The bibliography style is
authoryear and the bibliography generation processor is biber.

Here's a referece that might help you:
<https://www.bibtex.com/s/bibliography-style-harvard-agsm/>
It uses natbib, with works with BibTex, but the BibLaTeX (natbib-mode) is
equivalent.

HTH,

Rich