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When I print my bibliography I literally see (nodate) in my source when there's no date for an online bibtex entry. For example: Apple. (nodate). Introducing Swift. Verkregen 22 december 2014, van https://developer. apple.com/swift/

I wanna get rid of the (nodate), because the APA rules (dutch) say there should be (g.d.) instead of (nodate).

I'm using biblatex with the APA style. When I use the english-apa as LanguageMapping, I correctly see (n.d.) in the bibliography. The problem is only happening when I use dutch-apa. When I use a \parencite{} command, the correct date (g.d.) shows up, the problem only occurs at the \printbibliography.

How can I override the string they use when there's no date? I already tried playing around with this line of code, but it doesn't change anything: \DefineBibliographyStrings{dutch}{% nodate = {g.d.} }

MWE:

\documentclass[pdftex,a4paper,12pt,twoside]{report} 
\usepackage[dutch]{babel} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex} 
\DeclareLanguageMapping{dutch}{dutch-apa} 

\addbibresource{sources.bib} 
\begin{document} 

\parencite{introducingswift} 
\printbibliography 

\end{document}

with the following code in the sources.bib file:

@online{introducingswift,
    title = {Introducing {S}wift},
    author = {Apple},
    url = {https://developer.apple.com/swift/},
    urldate = {2014-12-22},
}
Jelle Elaut
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    Can you show a minimal example that demonstrates the problem? I can't reproduce it. – Alan Munn May 25 '15 at 19:50
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    Welcome to TeX.SX! Even though the idea of your question is quite clear (at least I think I got it), your question would benefit from a MWE. Just so we have something to play around with and so we can actually see the problem. When I just wrote my own short example document based on what was my best guess for your document, I got "g.d." in the citations as well as the bibliography. – moewe May 25 '15 at 19:55
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    Is the "nodate" in bold (that would indicate the nodate string does not exist for some reason, in that case there would also be a warning in the .log)? Is it in two words or with a space in between? What version of biblatex are you using? – moewe May 25 '15 at 19:56
  • I added an MWE to my original question. "nodate" isn't in bold. It's in one word, so without a space. It's only happening in the \printbibliography, not in the \parencite{}. – Jelle Elaut May 25 '15 at 20:10
  • Even with in your MWE I get "g.d." everywhere. Before you do anything else, please make sure biblatex as well as biblatex-apa are up-to-date on your machine. You could try \DeclareLabeldate{% \field{pubstate} \field{date} \literal{nodate} } or \DeclareLabeldate{% \field{pubstate} \field{date} } (modulo line breaks) not sure if this will help though. – moewe May 25 '15 at 20:22
  • The fact that it is "nodate" in one word without space suggests it is hard-coded and not a localisation. As it is not bold it is not standard biblatex fallback for missing strings. So what remains is a hardcoded string in biblatex-apa. In my version of biblatex-apa (v6.7), "nodate" appears only in the lines I suggested above. – moewe May 25 '15 at 20:24
  • How can I update my biblatex or biblatex-apa? I use an IDE (texpad) so I didn't get in contact with these at all. I only installed mactex. – Jelle Elaut May 25 '15 at 20:26
  • Maybe How do I update my TeX distribution? helps? Make sure to read the "Understanding the TeX Live update scheme" section in the TeXLive part of the answers, it is also relevant to MacTeX. – moewe May 25 '15 at 20:29
  • Thanks alot. My distribution is updating at the moment. I hope that solves the problem! I'll keep you posted. – Jelle Elaut May 25 '15 at 20:36
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    Alright, updating my distribution fixed the problem :) Thanks alot for helping me out! Too bad I can't mark your comment as answer yet. Maybe you can add an answer so I can approve it? – Jelle Elaut May 25 '15 at 20:45
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the problem was fixed by updating the OP's TeX distribution. – lockstep May 25 '15 at 20:46

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