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I have a problem with citations from multiple authors. An additional comma is added after the 2nd author and before the german 'und' ('and' in English). How can I remove this comma?

Actual it looks like: Van der Panne, Van Beers, und Kleinknecht (2003)

Should be: Van der Panne, Van Beers und Kleinknecht (2003)

The code looks like this:

% !TEX TS-program = xelatexmk
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[bookmarksopen=true,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=black,citecolor=black,urlcolor=black,breaklinks=true]{hyperref}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel,translator}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial}

% APA german
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=apa]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{ngerman}{ngerman-apa}
\bibliography{lib}

\begin{document}
\textcite{vanderpanne2003} haben herausgefunden, dass...
\printbibliography
\end{document}

The Bibtex entry looks like below:

@article{vanderpanne2003,
    Author = {Van der Panne, Gerben and Van Beers, Cees and Kleinknecht, Alfred},
    Date = {2003},
    Journaltitle = {International Journal of Innovation Management},
    Number = {3},
    Pages = {309--338},
    Shorttitle = {Success and Failure of Innovation},
    Timestamp = {2017-01-08T11:24:29Z},
    Title = {Success and Failure of Innovation: A Literature Review},
    Volume = {7}}
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  • Which version of biblatex-apa are you running? With the current v. 7.2 I get 'Van der Panne, Van Beers und Kleinknecht' in citations without a comma. – moewe Jan 08 '17 at 12:21
  • Thanks for the little hint. I have updated my tex distribution and now it works like expected. – teclis Jan 08 '17 at 12:42
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the problem was solved by updating the biblatex-apa package. In the current version the German localisation does not use the Oxford comma. – moewe Jan 08 '17 at 12:49

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This behaviour is due to a bug in biblatex-apa which is fixed in the current (2017/01/06) release (v7.4). Where possible, you should update your TeX distribution to install the current release. If this is not possible, for example if you want to change only this one package or where you do not have the privileges to update the entire distribution, you will need to install the package locally. This option should be considered a last resort, since for more complex packages there may be package dependencies that will make local installation more complicated and error-prone.

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