changing u. a. of German to et. al

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I am using Texmaker under linux. My citations are like [author,year] which is as I want and I am using \bibliographystyle{dinat} and \usepackage[square]{natbib}. But I want to change [author u. a., year] to [author et al., year]. The u. a. is the equivalent of et al. in German. How can I do that? Should I change the style? I have tried \usepackage[USenglish]{babel} but there is no change.

The dinat bibliography style is specifically designed for German, and all of words and abbreviations ('editor', 'and', 'et al.') etc. will be in German. It might be simpler to use a different bibliography style. Is there a particular reason why you need to use an English dinat style? — Alan Munn, Apr 04 '15 at 23:18
I was tolled to use at university. The style should be like [Author, year] and I guess that is the only reason. can I use harvard style? — Iman, Apr 04 '15 at 23:20
I have tried http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/39457/75258 as well (the natbib suggestion) but there is no change in that! — Iman, Apr 04 '15 at 23:22
What do you mean, no change? If you change the bibliographystyle command, you need to delete your .aux files and rerun latex, bibtex, latex, latex to see the new style. — Alan Munn, Apr 04 '15 at 23:32
Ok. I tried it as you said, but these styles are not like[author,year]. They put numbers for citation. — Iman, Apr 04 '15 at 23:54

The Floe · Answer 1 · 2017-08-21T15:39:48.050

Following worked for me with APA style:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    bibwarn=true,
    bibencoding=utf8,
    sortlocale=de_DE,
    style=apa,
]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{ngerman}{ngerman-apa}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{
   andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}},
}
\addbibresource{Bibliography.bib}

\begin{document}
  Sample: \textcite{beck:2001}
\end{document}

Bibliography.bib:

@misc{beck:2001,
  Author    = {Beck, K. and Beedle, M. and van Bennekum, A. and Cockburn, A. and Cunningham, W. and Fowler, M. and Grenning, J. and Highsmith, J. and Hunt, A. and Jeffries, R. and Kern, J. and Marick, B. and Martin, R.C. and Mellor, S. and Schwaber, K. and Sutherland, J. and Thomas, D.},
  Title     = {Manifesto for Agile Software Development},
  Year      = {2001},
  URL       = {http://www.agilemanifesto.org/},
}

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

1

The astron style, as explained in this answer, worked for me.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

Community

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answered Apr 05 '15 at 00:10

Iman

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 18 '18 at 18:53

Simply changing the pushed standard texts defined in dinat.bst will work.

I downloaded the dinat.bst file: https://ctan.org/pkg/dinat

and modified

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

FUNCTION {push.und} { "und" }

into

FUNCTION {push.ua} { "et \,al." }

FUNCTION {push.und} { "and" }

Then, put this file in the folder of the .tex file.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 23 '20 at 10:10

I had the same problem with similar style, as you are having. The following code worked for me to get 'u.a.' to 'et al.':

\usepackage[sort&compress, square]{natbib}
\usepackage{har2nat}
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\begin{document}
   \citep{Author.2020}
   \bibliography{bib_file}
\end{document}

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 29 '20 at 19:53

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Or you can change the entry in your .bib file, i. e. put curly brackets:

AUTHOR       = "{Beck, K. et al.}"

answered Nov 29 '20 at 19:53

ubuntuuser

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 13 '22 at 23:27

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I had to cleanup all of Latex's auxiliary files and recompile from scratch. I then used

\usepackage[square]{natbib}
% ....
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

answered Oct 13 '22 at 23:27

rfabbri

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changing u. a. of German to et. al

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