Human Mutation German

roxanamueller

Hi there,

I am using zotero standalone version 5.0.47 as well as the firefox plugin and I am writing my thesis with Word for Mac (macOS High Sierra 10.13.4). Before I recently updated Office, zotero would cite all documents correctly in Human Mutation citation style in German language.

Since a few weeks it turned out to cite differently:
e. g. (Wagner and Baumann, 1997) instead of (Wagner und Baumann, 1997).

In the preferences/settings there is a preset for English and I cannot choose another language. Could anybody help me with this?

Also zotero would sometimes underline the citations, which is annoying as I have to undo it manually for each citation. Is there an option to switch that off?

roxanamueller

I have to add that I set the language to German in all the preferences, but still zotero word plugin itself work in English within the document.

adamsmith

The Human Mutation style has not changed in over a year and has always been in English (and English only). Not sure what you're remembering, but you either had manually modified the style or used a different one. There are, of course, many author dates available in German: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=German&format=author-date&dependent=0 so see if one of them works.

Underlined citations:
https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-5-0-36/#faster-citing-in-large-documents

roxanamueller

Thank you for this immediate reply, but still I am sure (and it is common) that before the update the citation was with "und" instead of "and". I hoped there would be a chance to prevent me fro going over all the citations and change that by hand.

adamsmith

Not sure what to tell you -- it was never supposed to be possible to have a style that's set to be in English show up in German; Human Mutation has been set to US-English since it was created in 2012; and we've had no one else report that English styles show up in any other language, so either you're misremembering or you experienced a bug that no one else saw and that no longer shows up for you -- for practical purposes it doesn't really matter which of the two is the case.

To get "und" back without manually fixing it, you can either switch to a German citations style (see above) or you can modify human mutation by removing default-locale="en-US"
after that you can set the style to any language in the Word add-on.
General instructions for that option here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step