I am trying to get around BibTex. I have successfully added the bibliography and everything works. The only problem is that when i have multiple authors, in the bibliography it places "and" before the last one. I need for it to be "i" as its and in Polish. Is there a way to change the language? Or even better, make it not use and before last author. I am using acm style.
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It's the bibliography style that tells BibTeX how to format the bibliography. Since you've indicated that you use the acm
style -- which, incidentally, hasn't been change meaningfully since 1988 -- I suggest you proceed as follows:
Locate the file
acm.bst
in your TeX distribution. Make a copy of this file and call the copy, say,acm-i.bst
. Do not edit an original file of the TeX distribution directly.Open the file
acm-i.bst
in a text editor; the editor you use to edit your tex files will do fine.Replace all three instances of
and "
withi "
. All three instances of the stringand "
will be preceded by lines that containet~al.
as a substring.Save the file
acm-i.bst
, either to the directory that contains your main tex file or to a directory that's searched by BibTeX. If you choose the latter option, be sure to update the filename database of your TeX distribution.In your main tex file, replace the instruction
\bibliographystyle{acm}
with\bibliographystyle{acm-i}
, and re-run LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more to fully propagate all changes.
Happy BibTeXing!
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This is exactly what I needed, thank you. Since you know your way around BibTex, maybe you could help me with one more thing? I figured out how to change the edition field to math my requirements, I cannot however handle 2 more things: How to remove the coma after surnames (before name 1st letters)? And second, how to make authors list finish with colon after the dot? I managed to make colon appear before the ending dot only... I would apreciate all help! Feb 23, 2016 at 22:27
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1@ŁukaszPrzeniosło - On the issue of omitting the comma between the surnames and the first initials: On line 196 of
acm-i.bst
, change the string"{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, f.}"
to"{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{ f.}"
. On the second issue: I'm afraid I'm not exactly sure what you're looking to achieve. Please post a new question, in which you explain in more detail what the formatting objective is.– MicoFeb 24, 2016 at 2:06 -
@ŁukaszPrzeniosło - Just saw your earlier posting again, about formatted entries having to look like
[1] Doe J.: How to format bibliography?. JohnDoe limited, Warsaw, 2015.
Speaking for myself, I find several of the embedded stylistic settings -- e.g.,.:
at the end of theauthor
field and?.
at the end of thetitle
field -- nothing short of dreadful. If you really must implement these settings, I suggest you do so by editing the.bbl
file (which is produced by BibTeX) hand and modifying the contents of the\bibitem
s to make them conform to the requirements you must satisfy.– MicoFeb 24, 2016 at 14:59 -
I could actually do that- edit the output file. But I am also kind of trying to understand how does the bibtex code syntax work, so I can change things in the future. As for now, it is very confusing for me. All I got left to figure out is only the
.:
at the end of authors list. Thank you for help. Feb 24, 2016 at 17:06
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bibliography style. In contrast, the new posting is about theacm
bibliography style.