Style translate don't work.

kacc12 · 2026-02-25T14:51:49+00:00

Hello,
I'm having trouble translating styles.
I'm choosing the Cite Them Right 12th edition (author-date/Harvard) style.
I'm choosing Polish.
And yet Zotero is inserting the English "et al" instead of "i in" and "&" instead of "i."
It simply doesn't respect the language setting.

damnation · 2026-02-25T15:16:21+00:00

It does respect your change and I'm sure you see other changes like "eds." >> "red.".
But currently, our polish "locale" aka translations has "et al.".
https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/blob/d7da45fc8b1b86c445c5019af5b95b8293748ffd/locales-pl-PL.xml#L47

You'd need to modify the citation style to achieve "i in"

adamsmith · 2026-02-25T15:35:26+00:00

(et al is Latin, not English, and used widely across languages, including in many Polish styles)

kacc12 · 2026-02-25T20:25:34+00:00

Is the file you provided for all styles? How can I change it just for a specific style?
And how to insert this file in Zotero

adamsmith · 2026-02-25T20:40:20+00:00

That file is for all styles but you can override it in any individual style. See the example at the top of cite them right

  <locale xml:lang="en-GB">
    <terms>
      <term name="editor" form="short">
        <single>ed.</single>
        <multiple>eds</multiple>
      </term>
      <term name="editortranslator" form="verb">edited and translated by</term>
      <term name="edition" form="short">edn.</term>
    </terms>
  </locale>

You'll want to create, next to this, a polish (pl-Pl) with the same structure that redefines the et-al style.