[Tex/LaTex] Citing multiple authors with alternate separator than “and” using BibTeX

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I'm using LyX on Linux Mint 14 …

Using BibTeX with the apalike style and some modifications in the preamble, I've managed to get the bibliography as it should be except for one thing. When I cite a work with multiple authors it gets printed with the separator "and" which isn't correct for my language (Danish). Curiously it's displayed correctly in the user interface of Lyx – for example "(Wittgenstein og Waismann 2003 – which led me to believe everything was ok but in the pdf the separator "and" is used both in the reference and in the bibliography.

Is there any way to fix this using BibTeX, or can it only be done with biber 1.5, as suggested in the last comment here: How to properly write multiple authors in bibtex file?

I really hope their is because getting biber to work using the following guide has thus far proven to be impossible: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex

Help much appreciated … I really hope I won't have to relapse into setting my master thesis up in LibreOffice.

Best Answer

Welcome to TeX.SE! If you want to stick with the apalike bibliography style, you'll need to edit it a wee bit, as follows:

  • Locate the file apalike.bst on your system, and copy it to a new file called, say, ogapalike.bst. Don't edit the original file directly.

  • Open the file ogapalike.bst in your favorite editor.

  • Locate the following line in the function format.names (it's on l. 225 in my copy of this file):

                  { " and " * t * }

    and change it -- you guessed it -- to

                  { " og " * t * }

  • Locate the following line in the function format.lab.names (it's on l. 851 in my copy of the file):

                { " and " * s #2 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ * }

    and change it -- you guessed right again! -- to

                { " og " * s #2 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ * }

  • Save the file ogapalike.bst either in the directory where your main .tex file is located, or somewhere in the search path of your TeX distribution; if you do the latter, be sure to update the TeX filename database according to the distribution's suggestions. Start using it with the instruction

    \bibliographystyle{ogapalike}

    The first time you use the new style file, be sure to rerun BibTeX and LaTeX twice more to fully propagate all "and to og" changes...

Happy (Bib)TeXing!

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