Customizing in-text citations to appear in the correct language

Question

I'm using Overleaf to create my Master's dissertation. It's been a wild few days, learning about latex, since it's ruthless to beginners.

One problem I have yet to solve after countless hours looking, is how to correctly implement dual language references.

I need to have greek and english bibliography, and correctly cite my items in-text without any unexpected gibberish.

So far I've used biblatex, utilizing both the keywords tag and hyphenation/language which works pretty well with printing the separated bibliography.

However, the in-text citations, that also appear next to the end reference list, are completely messed up for the english text (my dissertation is almost 100% greek language, I have to use \textlatin before any latin segment).

This is what's relevant in my main.tex file:

\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[a4paper, left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,backend=biber,bibencoding=auto,autolang=other]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblio.bib}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}

\autocite{RYA2001}

\printbibliography[keyword={en},title={Ξενόγλωσση Βιβλιογραφία}]

\end{document}

This is what's relevant in my biblio.bib file:

@Book{RYA2001,
  author = {Ryan, Marie-Laure},
  publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
  title = {Narrative as virtual reality : immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media},
  year = {2001},
  keywords = {en},
  language = {english},
  hyphenation = {english}
}

This is the printout for in-text:

[Ρψα01]

The printout for the end of document bibliography is good, but its reference to the in-text is the same.

which is gibberish. I'd like it to appear as (Ryan, 2001), but I can't even use a comma in the bibliography declaration.

How do I correctly setup multi-language citations?

Answer 1

You are using biblatex with style=alphabetic, so you are getting citations in the form of [ABC00]. You need to use style=authoryear to get author year citations.

The citations labels are in Greek, because you need to add language=auto to your biblatex options. By default, it's language=autobib, so the language is only changed in the bibliography.

You can put a comma between the name and the year by redefining the nameyeardelim using \DeclareDelimFormat{nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}.

MWE

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{RYA2001,
  author = {Ryan, Marie-Laure},
  publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
  title = {Narrative as virtual reality : immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media},
  year = {2001},
  keywords = {en},
  language = {english},
  hyphenation = {english}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[a4paper, left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,backend=biber,bibencoding=auto,language=auto,autolang=other]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\DeclareDelimFormat{nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}

\autocite{RYA2001}

\printbibliography[keyword={en},title={Ξενόγλωσση Βιβλιογραφία}]

\end{document}