How to remove or substitute "and" from a BibTeX bibliography?

Question

I would like to remove "and" from my bibliography,because this what I have now:

C. Danti, M. Matteini, and A. Moles. Le Pitture murali: tecniche, problemi, conservazione. Centro Di, 1990.

I would like to remove "and" or replace it with the proper conjunction in my languages (e.g. "e"). To get this:

C. Danti, M. Matteini, A. Moles. Le Pitture murali: tecniche, problemi, conservazione. Centro Di, 1990.

This, for example, is my biblio.bibfile:

@book{danti1990pitture,
    Author = {Danti, C. and Matteini, M. and Moles, A.},
    Date-Added = {2013-11-25 16:52:18 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2013-11-25 16:52:18 +0000},
    Isbn = {9788870381962},
    Lccn = {91161506},
    Publisher = {Centro Di},
    Title = {Le Pitture murali: tecniche, problemi, conservazione},
    Url = {http://books.google.it/books?id=077qAAAAMAAJ},
    Year = {1990},
    Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://books.google.it/books?id=077qAAAAMAAJ}}

This is my .tex file:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
I cite \cite{danti1990pitture} but I don't want the``and".
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{biblio}
\end{document}

Answer 1

As suggest you can use babelbib. If you are using babelbib you have to use a supported bibliography style. In your case babplain:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{biblio.bib}
@book{danti1990pitture,
    Author = {Danti, C. and Matteini, M. and Moles, A.},
    Date-Added = {2013-11-25 16:52:18 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2013-11-25 16:52:18 +0000},
    Isbn = {9788870381962},
    Lccn = {91161506},
    Publisher = {Centro Di},
    Title = {Le Pitture murali: tecniche, problemi, conservazione},
    Url = {http://books.google.it/books?id=077qAAAAMAAJ},
    Year = {1990},
    Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://books.google.it/books?id=077qAAAAMAAJ}}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,italian]{book}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babelbib}
\usepackage{url}
\begin{document}
I cite \cite{danti1990pitture} but I don't want the "and".
\bibliographystyle{babplain}
\bibliography{biblio}
\end{document}

Answer 2

Since you're using the plain bibliography style, you could proceed along the following lines to replace the "and" conjunction with "e":

• Find the file plain.bst in your TeX distribution, make a copy, and name the copy, say, myplain.bst. (Do not edit an original file directly.)

• Open myplain.bst in your favorite text editor.

• Locate the two instances of " and " in the file. (In my copy, they occur on lines 201 and 480.)

  Change the " and " strings to " e ".

• Save the new style file, either in the same directory as where your .tex file is located or in a directory that's searched by your TeX distribution. Update the filename database as appropriate for your TeX distribution.

• Be sure to include the directive \bibliographystyle{myplain} from now on.

With these changes applied to myplain.bst, the following output results from re-running your MWE:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
I cite \cite{danti1990pitture} but I don't want the ``and''.
\bibliographystyle{myplain}
\bibliography{biblio}
\end{document}

Answer 3

for remove "and" add % to bbl.and in FUNCTION {format.names}, eg

FUNCTION {format.names}
{ 'bibinfo :=
  duplicate$ empty$ 'skip$ {
  's :=
  "" 't :=
  #1 'nameptr :=
  s num.names$ 'numnames :=
  numnames 'namesleft :=
    { namesleft #0 > }
    { s nameptr
      "{vv~}{ll}{, f.}{, jj}"
      format.name$
      bib.name.font
      bibinfo bibinfo.check
      't :=
      nameptr #1 >
        {
          namesleft #1 >
            { "; " * t * }
            {
              s nameptr "{ll}" format.name$ duplicate$ "others" =
                { 't := }
                { pop$ }
              if$
              t "others" =
                {
                  " " * bbl.etal emphasize *
                }
                {
                  %bbl.and
                  space.word * t *
                }
              if$
            }
          if$
        }
        't
      if$
      nameptr #1 + 'nameptr :=
      namesleft #1 - 'namesleft :=
    }
  while$
  } if$
}