KBibTeX for other languages

Question

I'm compiling bibliography using KBibTeX. However, when there are multiple authors, it uses the word and. Is there a way to tell KBibTeX to use another word for it, for example y (Spanish) without having to change manually the .bib. If there is not, is there any way to tell LaTeX/BibTeX this?

Answer 1

To quote Ulrike Fischer's answer to this question:

I would use biblatex instead.

Below you'll find a complete example using biblatex and the spanish language. For other reasons to use biblatex see here, for details about how to switch to biblatex see here.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[spanish]{babel}

\usepackage{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A. and Buthor, B.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

(The filecontents environment is only used to include some external files directly into the example, so that it compiles. It is not necessary for the solution.)

Answer 2

Since the biblography itself won't be compiled via kbibtex but by your Latexprogramm (kile, I guess?) it doesn't matter for your finished Document. If you'll compile on,e there wil be "und" or "y", depending on the language of your document (via \usepackage[spanish]{babel}, I think)