problem with "et al"

vg

When I am working with bibliography in MS Word, Zotero automatically translates "et al" to the local (russian) version "и др". How can I turn this feature off? (I am writing an article in english and thus I need "et al")

Windows and Firefox are russian, MS Word is english.

Thanks in advance.

fpantin

Hi,
I had the same problem with my French version for "et al", "in", and "eds". I have added just after the </info> line

<terms>
<locale xml:lang="fr">
<term name="et-al">et al</term>
<term name="in">in</term>
<term name="editor" form="short">
<single>ed</single>
<multiple>eds</multiple>
</term>
</locale>
</terms>

So for your problem I guess you have to add

<terms>
<locale xml:lang="ru">
<term name="et-al">et al</term>
</locale>
</terms>

vg

It works, thanks a lot!

Just a note - these lines should be added to a style file (*.csl), which is found in "styles" folder of Zotero.

bdarcus

Um, that's really NOT the correct solution, unless you only ever want it to apply to that style, and that style only (not to mention having to edit it every time there's some change).

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2991/

vg

Thanks for the answer, this is really a better solution, as it's general in all senses. Hope that it will be in the settings window in some future version of Zotero.

adamsmith

Hope that it will be in the settings window in some future version of Zotero.

you may find this add-on useful
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14442/

vg

thanks again! (shame on me for inability to use the search)