BibLaTeX Entry – How to Include Latin in Bibliographies

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If I want to produce a referece like this in my bibliography:

Boncompagni, Baldassarre. Tre scritti inediti di Leonardo 
Pisano. — Firenze : Tipografia Galileiana, 1854. — 122 p. (in Lat.)

Do I use "Latin" or "langlatin" as my language? Because in biblatex manual it says it's either a literal or a key.

Where does it say that I need to add "lang" prefix to the language? And why do i need it there?

In the manual it says:

 If localization keys are used, the prefix lang is omissible.

What are the localization keys?

This is very confusing – please help!

Best Answer

Looking at biblatex-examples.bib, I see that the field is used as

language      = {langlatin and langgerman},

whereas other 'language' fields also show items such as

origlanguage      = {german},

I'd therefore suggest that you use either lang<key> or <literal>, so in your case either langlatin or Latin would be correct.

(The idea is that langlatin is picked up automatically to be replaced by whatever has been defined as the 'localised' string here. On the other hand 'Latin' is treated as a literal and is typeset as-is.)

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