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I am writing a document in Greek.

My bibliography, however consists mainly of English entries (along with a few Greek, French and German ones).

If I just add the .bib file all entries are in Greek. If I change language before adding the .bib file entries are in English, so is the chapter title, which is not prefered in my case. I tried using 

\selectlanguage{english}

on the very first line of my .bib file but it didn't work. I also tried 

\LANGUAGE=english

as a field in the bibliography entry, but it didn't work either... Any ideas?

Here follows my .tex files (I am using subfiles) and the .bib file.

main.tex

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
\usepackage{kerkis}
\usepackage{subfiles}
\usepackage[Glenn]{fncychap}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
\usepackage{tocloft}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\tocwithouttitle}{\@starttoc{toc}}
\makeatother
%--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\lofwithouttitle}{\@starttoc{lof}}
\makeatother
%--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\lotwithouttitle}{\@starttoc{lot}}
\makeatother
%--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

\parskip 3mm
\footskip = 15mm
\begin{document}

%~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Front-Page~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
\begin{titlepage}
Frontpage
\end{titlepage}

\pagenumbering{roman}

\textcolor{Darkblue}{\chapter*{\contentsname}}
\markboth{\MakeUppercase{\contentsname}}{\MakeUppercase{\contentsname}}
\textcolor{Darkblue}{\tocwithouttitle}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Περιεχόμενα}

\newpage

\textcolor{Darkblue}{\chapter*{Κατάλογος Σχημάτων}}
\markboth{\MakeUppercase{Κατάλογος Σχημάτων}}{\MakeUppercase{Κατάλογος Σχημάτων}}
\textcolor{Darkblue}{\lofwithouttitle}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Κατάλογος Σχημάτων}

\newpage

\textcolor{Darkblue}{\chapter*{Κατάλογος Πινάκων}}
\markboth{\MakeUppercase{Κατάλογος Πινάκων}}{\MakeUppercase{Κατάλογος Πινάκων}}
\textcolor{Darkblue}{\lotwithouttitle}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Κατάλογος Πινάκων}

\newpage

\pagenumbering{arabic}

\subfile{introductionGR.tex}

\clearpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Βιβλιογραφία}
%\selectlanguage{english}
\textcolor{Darkblue}{\bibliography{test}}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\end{document}

This is my subfile (named introductionGR.tex) with citations...

\documentclass[main.tex]{subfiles}
\begin{document}
\textcolor{Darkblue}{\chapter{Εισαγωγή}}
Ο κόσμος στον οποίο ζούμε είναι αποτέλεσμα βίαιων διεργασιών που έλαβαν χώρα πριν από     περίπου $14$ δισεκατομύρια χρόνια\cite{UniverseAge}. Η φυσική υψηλών ενεργειών ή   σωματιδιακή φυσικής βρίσκεται\cite{bar2} στο προσκήνιο 
\end{document}

Last but not least my .bib file (named test.bib)

\selectlanguage{english}
@article{UniverseAge,
    author    = "N. Jarosik et al",
    title     = "Seven-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Sky Maps, Systematic Errors, and Basic Results",
    journal   = "The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series",
    volume   = "192",
    number   = "14",
    pages    = "15",
    year      = "2011",
    month    = "February",
}

@BOOK{bar2,
    AUTHOR = "Astar, R. M.",
    TITLE = "Foo Bar Baz",
    PUBLISHER = {MIT Press},
    ADDRESS = {Cambridge, MA},
    YEAR = 1989}

I have also tried package babellib but it's not working either... The code I used:

 \usepackage{babelbib}
 \selectbiblanguage{english}

Note: I don't want to use XeLaTeX. Isn't it possible?

Error #1:

LaTeX Error:Command \c@lofdepth already defined.
            Or name \end...illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.

The line that has a problem is

\newcounter{lofdeth}

which is in a subfigure file!(?)

Error #2:

LaTeX Error:Command \c@lofdepth already defined.
            Or name \end...illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.

The line that has a problem is

\newcounter{lotdeth}

which is in a subfigure file!(?)

Error #3:

LaTeX Error:Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.

The line that has a problem is

\contentsline {chapter}{Perieq'omena}{\textlatin {iii}}{chapter*.1}

which is in main.toc

Note: Perieq'omena is the Greeklish word for Contents. The correct word would be Περιεχόμενα.

Error #4:

LaTeX Error:Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.

The line that has a problem is

\addvspace {10\p@ }

which is in main.lof

Error #5:

LaTeX Error:Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.

The line that has a problem is

\addvspace {10\p@ }

which is in main.lot

I think that Error #3 might have a connection to my issue. I am using kerkis font. But the problems remains even if I use the default babel one.

Warnings for MWE

Warning #1:

LaTeX Font Warnig:Some font shapes were not available,defaults substituded.

Warning #2:

LaTeX Font Warnig: Font shape 'OT1/MAK/m/n' undefined
                   using 'OT1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 1

Warning #3:

LaTeX Warnig: Overwriting file './test.bib'
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  • I just came across an idea... I used \renewcommand\bibname{Βιβλιογραφία} where "Βιβλιογραφία" is the name I want, along with \selectlanguage{english} before adding the .bib file but it didn't work... – Thanos Sep 02 '12 at 08:59
  • check out http://www.mechpedia.gr/wiki/LaTeX – pmav99 Sep 03 '12 at 05:28
  • I don't use XeLaTeX...I want to do that in LaTeX... – Thanos Sep 03 '12 at 08:59

1 Answers1

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You have several errors in your files. First of all your MWE does not compile. Make a MWE as small as possible. Delete everything not relevant to the problem.

In your bib file add a field language={English} for each entry, if the language is English. For a Greek book/article/... add language={Greek}.

Your \textcolor{Darkblue}{\tocwithouttitle} does not compile. First of all the color Darkblue is not definded (\usepackage[]{xcolor} missing?). I deleted it.

In your bib file you have author = "N. Jarosik et al",. You should write all authors into your bib file including complete firstnames; it depends on the style of your bibliography wheater to print a list of authors or "first author et al".

Update 1 and 2:

Package filecontents writes the file test.bib (our minimal bib file). With texdoc filecontents you can read the package documentation. With \selectlanguage{...} you can switch the language. Please note that I changed the document class to report just to get a shorter pdf file.

A shorter MWE (on my system it is compiling):

%https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69780/change-bibtexs-language
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{test.bib}
@comment Datei test.bib
@article{UniverseAge,
    author    = "N. Jarosik et al",
    title     = "Seven-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Sky Maps, Systematic Errors, and Basic Results",
    journal   = "The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series",
    volume   = "192",
    number   = "14",
    pages    = "15",
    year      = "2011",
    month    = "February",
    language = "English",
}

@BOOK{bar2,
    AUTHOR    = {Astar, R. M.},
    TITLE     = {Foo Bar Baz},
    PUBLISHER = {MIT Press},
    ADDRESS   = {Cambridge, MA},
    language  = {English},
    YEAR      = {1989}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[T1,OT1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{kerkis}

\begin{document}

\selectlanguage{greek}
\tableofcontents

\section*{Κατάλογος Πινάκων}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Κατάλογος Πινάκων}

\section{Εισαγωγή}
δισεκατομύρια χρόνια\cite{UniverseAge}. ... βρίσκεται\cite{bar2} στο προσκήνιο

\selectlanguage{english}
\renewcommand\bibname{Βιβλιογραφία}
%\renewcommand{\bibname}{\normalsize Βιβλιογραφία} 
%\renewcommand\bibname{{\fontfamily{mak}\selectfont Βιβλιογραφία}}
%\renewcommand\bibname{{\usefont{T1}{mak}{m}{n} Βιβλιογραφία}}  % T1,OT1
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{test}

\end{document}

I added some commented line to show alternatives you have and you should play with. For example, do you use fontenc? I added two alternatives to switch the heading of your bibliography.

Also have a look to the question how-to-change-bibliography-heading.

If this MWE is running you can compare it with your thesis at find out the differences between both. Have a look to this differences and copy small parts from your thesis into the MWE, recompile and check what's happend. No errors? Good, next part ...

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  • First of all... I supposse that lines before \begin{document} are the .bib file... I added all your extra code to my .bib file, I compiled it but it didn't work...Bib entries are in Greek, not in English... – Thanos Sep 03 '12 at 07:03
  • I also tried to use that code before \documentclass[]{}, in the exact way as your code implies. The output is exactly the same , I'm afraid...No bib entries at all... – Thanos Sep 03 '12 at 11:46
  • It's not working... Or should I say it is partially working? Entries are in English, however title is in Greek-lish, meaning that it is indeed the Greek word, in latin letters though... – Thanos Sep 04 '12 at 06:39
  • I used \renewcommand\bibname{\fontfamily{mak}\selectfont Βιβλιογραφία} just after \selectlanguage{english} but again it is not working... I also tried to put \selectlanguage{english} just before bibliography{test} but it doesn't work either... – Thanos Sep 04 '12 at 15:19
  • It's not working either...I'll use an answer just to show my errors and warnigns... – Thanos Sep 05 '12 at 06:07
  • This is also true for you MWE... I get 0 Errors and 3 Warnings...See my first question for details... – Thanos Sep 05 '12 at 14:30
  • In case it helps...I am having the exact same problem with Adobe Reader's bookmarks and Conny chapter style... – Thanos Sep 05 '12 at 14:38
  • I am using LaTeX in Windows Vista and I can't find out my bibtex version... To create bib file I am just editing an empty document, naming it XXX.bib... – Thanos Sep 05 '12 at 15:02
  • I am using MikTex-pdftex 2.8.3759<1.40.10><MikTex 2.8> and MikTex-bibtex 2.8.3518 <0.99c><MikTex 2.8>. – Thanos Sep 05 '12 at 15:19