BibTeX: Apalike using & instead of and

Question

Intro

I am currently writing a report on my local language. The usage of "and" in my reference list is not preferable and I would like to use "&" instead of "and" such that the reference list and cite will display with "&" not "and".

I tried manually changeing all "and"s to "\&" in my .bib file. However, this did not solve the problem as the authors suddenly showed up wrong. I am not sure why this happened but I know that it was interpreted wrong.

I have following in my master file:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{natbib}
...
\bibliographystyle{apalike}

Question:

Is it possible to change the reference list such that all "and"'s are interpreted as "&" and displayed as such while maintaining "and" in the .bib file?

Seems like a duplicate of Replace 'and' with ampersand in bibliography and parenthetical citations using BibLaTeX ... though it is hard to search for things like "replace and" — cslstr, Mar 09 '14 at 18:24
Note changing your .bib file won't work. The software needs to see "and" in the .bib file to work, and your use of \& will mess it up. What gets printed has nothing to do, in this case, with what is in the .bib file. — Paul Stanley, Mar 09 '14 at 19:17
@PaulStanley - thx. As described I osberved this. However, even with the suggestion from cslstr I am still not possible to make this work. How would you change the interpretation of and? — SteewDK, Mar 09 '14 at 19:51
@SteewDK I posted an answer, but it was wrong, so I've deleted it. Meanwhile, are you actually using biblatex? It looks like you are using bibtex? — Paul Stanley, Mar 09 '14 at 20:29

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 10 '19 at 21:20

Your question is a bit confused, because you have tagged it as Biblatex, but your reference to apalike suggests you are using BibTeX.

First off, whichever system you are using, do not try to change the format of references by changing your .bib file. That file just contains data. How it is formatted depends on other files. Each author should always and only be separate from the others by and in that file.

For BibTeX

If you are using apalike, follow the instructions given in this answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/109226/5404, replacing " and " with " \& " in two places in the file. Be sure to rename the .bst file.

For BibLaTeX

The biblatex-apa style already uses ampersands (not "and") so there shouldn't be any change to make. If you do ever need to change the "&" or "and" in biblatex, follow the instructions given at Replace 'and' with ampersand in bibliography and parenthetical citations using BibLaTeX.

The essential trick is to redefine the \finalnamedelim macro. A generally suitable definition is along these lines

\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{%
    \ifnumgreater{\value{liststop}}{2}{\finalandcomma}{}%
    \addspace\&\space}%

The second line of that deals with the insertion of a comma before the final delimiter, a feature itself controlled by \finalandcomma: if you don't want a comma, you can define that macro to produce nothing.

SirWillpower · Answer 2 · 2016-04-13T02:37:51.153

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Using LaTex 3.61: Here is how to change "and" for an ampersand "&" in both citations and references using apalike bibliography style.

The solution is to replace \bibliographystyle{apalike} for \biliographystyle{apalike2}

edited Apr 13 '16 at 02:37

answered Apr 12 '16 at 01:53

SirWillpower

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