LaTeX reference came out as "&" instead of as "and"

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LaTeX reference came out as & instead of and. I tried to to modify the apa.bst file but when I search for & or /& \&

Questions seeking debugging help (“why isn't this code working?”) must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest code necessary to reproduce it in the question itself. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers. See minimal working example (MWE). — Henri Menke, Aug 19 '19 at 03:15
Do please tell us which citation-related packages you employ (if any) and which bibliography style you use. — Mico, Aug 19 '19 at 03:57
APA style requires use of & instead of and in certain situations, so if you ordered an APA bibliography and citations this is expected and desired. In any case we need to know more about your document to be able to help. There are several packages out there that implement APA style, some like apacite and biblatex-apa try to follow the APA guidelines as closely as possible, others like apalike.bst are only 'like APA'. If we don't know what you use, we can't give any useful advice. — moewe, Aug 19 '19 at 05:06
The apa.bst is ancient, and should probably not be used anyway. But without any code to see what you're doing it's impossible to tell. — Alan Munn, Aug 20 '19 at 18:29
hi, thanks for the replies. I use apacite package for references and I took references from mendeley reference manager program. — le rouge et le noir, Aug 20 '19 at 19:29
I want references in the form (A and B) instead of (A&B). @HenriMenke — le rouge et le noir, Aug 20 '19 at 19:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '19 at 20:59

The apacite package provides quite a bit of flexibility in modifying certain parts of the formatting, so it would be useful to read its documentation.

The format of the 'and' between names in parenthetical citations is controlled by the \BBAA macro. If you redefine this at the beginning of the document you can replace the & with and.

For future questions, please give a minimal document showing exactly what you're doing so that people don't have to guess or ask multiple questions in comments.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@article{ex88,
    Author = {Borman, W. C. and Hanson, M. A. and Oppler, S. H. and Pulakos, E. D. and White, L. A.},
    Journal = {Journal of Applied Psychology},
    Pages = {443--449},
    Title = {Role of Early Supervisory Experience in Supervisor Performance},
    Volume = {78},
    Year = {1993}}

@article{4.05-2,
    Author = {Bretschneider, J. G. and McCoy, N. L.},
    Journal = {Archives of Sexual Behavior},
    Pages = {343--350},
    Title = {Sexual Interest and Behavior in Healthy 80- to 102-Year-Olds},
    Volume = {14},
    Year = {1968}}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\BBAA}{and}}
\begin{document}

\citep{ex88, 4.05-2}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

Thank you very much! it worked perfectly.. A follow up question what is the code for et al. I would like to change it to my preferred language. — le rouge et le noir, Aug 21 '19 at 06:26
You can add \renewcommand{\BOthers}[1]{et al.} and change it to whatever you need (also inside the \AtBeginDocument command.) — Alan Munn, Aug 21 '19 at 12:04
Thank you very much! I really appreciate your help. Saved my days. — le rouge et le noir, Aug 24 '19 at 08:27

LaTeX reference came out as "&" instead of as "and"

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