changing citation from "u.a"., "und" to et.al., "and"

Question

I am using these packages:

\usepackage[english]{babel}    
\usepackage[round, sort&compress]{natbib}   
\usepackage[ sort&compress]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{dinat}

However I am writing in English, but the template is German. I changed all german language stuff to English. And I know that dinat is a German citation thing. I even tried to change the dinat.bst file, but failed and nothing happend.

Possible duplicate of Text is english, citation style is in another language — Sango, Sep 02 '19 at 08:57
@Sango - Not a duplicate: The current query employs the bib style dinat, whereas the one you've referenced uses the bib style natdin. This matters quite a bit. — Mico, Sep 02 '19 at 09:29

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '19 at 09:27

Starting on line 109 of dinat.bst, one finds the following lines of code:

FUNCTION {push.bd}        { "Bd." }
FUNCTION {push.diplom}    { "Diplomarbeit" }
FUNCTION {push.disser}    { "Dissertation" }
FUNCTION {push.forschung} { "Forschungsbericht" }
FUNCTION {push.hrsg}      { "Hrsg." }
FUNCTION {push.in}        { "In:" }
FUNCTION {push.isbn}      { "ISBN" }
FUNCTION {push.issn}      { "ISSN" }
FUNCTION {push.kap}       { "Kap." }
FUNCTION {push.nr}        { "Nr." }
FUNCTION {push.sn}        { "S" }
FUNCTION {push.s}         { "S." }
FUNCTION {push.siehe}     { "Siehe" }
FUNCTION {push.ua}        { "u.\,a." }
FUNCTION {push.und}       { "und" }
FUNCTION {push.url.name}  { "URL" }
FUNCTION {push.veranst}   { "Veranst." }
FUNCTION {push.von}       { "von" }
FUNCTION {push.zugriff}   { "Zugriffsdatum" }

FUNCTION {push.cite}      { "\citep" }

I suggest you proceed as follows:

Make a copy of the file dinat.bst and name the copy, say, dinat-en.bst. Don't edit an original file of the TeX distribution directly.
Open the file dinat-en.bst in a text editor -- the program you use to edit your tex files will do fine -- and proceed to line 109.

Edit the 20 functions as needed. E.g., change the lines

FUNCTION {push.ua}        { "u.\,a." }
FUNCTION {push.und}       { "und" }

to

FUNCTION {push.ua}        { "et~al." }
FUNCTION {push.und}       { "and" }

Save the file dinat-en.bst either in the directory where your main tex file (the file with the instructions \bibliographystyle and \bibliography) is located or in a directory that's searched by BibTeX. If you choose the latter option, be sure to also update the filename database of your TeX distribution suitably.
In your main tex file, change
```
\bibliographystyle{dinat}
```
to
```
\bibliographystyle{dinat-en}
```
save the tex file, and perform a full recompile cycle -- LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more -- to fully propagate the changes.

changing citation from "u.a"., "und" to et.al., "and"

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