Changing languages in a citation style

sei-storage

Hi All

I know I can change the interface language for Zotero, but what if I want to use a style I created in English but in a Swedish document (so "and" becomes "och", "In" becomes "I"). Is there an easy function for this or do I need to create a (nearly) duplicate style?

damnation

There is styles that have no language set and you can then choose the language within Word/LibreOffice under Document Preferences. (see: https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage)

There is also the option to change the language setting in citation styles that have the language hardcoded into the style.

Which style are you looking to use?

sei-storage

Thanks. It's a custom style. So I guess I need to go in an customize it.

damnation

That's very easy.
In the first line of the code you will find something like default-locale="en-GB".
Change that to sv-SE and the style will be set to Swedish.
(you can also do this in the visual editor under "Global Formatting Options": https://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/)

General instructions here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

sei-storage

That easy? That's excellent. Thanks a lot.

damnation

Sorry, just double checked. sv-SE!

You can see how it will be translated here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/blob/master/locales-sv-SE.xml