Cannot get initial state to evil in BSelect mode

Hello, I use reftex when doing LaTeX, and one very nice thing is the way it deals with bibliographic entries. Unfortunately, when I want to select a bib entry, I'm by default in normal mode. Looking at the mode line, I see the current mode is "BSelect", so I tried adding this to my .emacs: (evil-set-initial-state 'bselect-mode 'emacs) I must be doing something wrong as it does not trigger. What should I do to be in emacs mode by default in a BSelect buffer? Thanks, Alan