Upright SI units and greek letters

According to standards SI units such as for example micro-amperes should be made upright and not italic. Unfortunately lyx not  offers a standard solution for upright Greek letters. Therefore, one needs to use the special SI unit package: http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/siunitx that should already be available in your miktex distribution. Here are the steps to use it inside lyx:

step 1)  include the package into your master document preambule
step 2)  insert the latex code \SI{10}{\micro \ampere} inside your document

Here are the steps in image, with the final result:

Getting Bibtex formated references

Adding references to a thesis work is often a vexing  and long work. A nice solution is proposed by: http://www.mendeley.com/; you give the article title and the website generates the reference for you. Several reference format are available such as:

• APA,
• BibTeX,
• Cell,
• Chicago,
• Harvard,
• MLA,
• Nature,
• Science. 

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