Change citation language of existing document

darsvaeda · December 8, 2014

Hi,

I use zotero standalone with the firefox plugin and libreoffice plugin.
I have >200 citations in my file and need to change the citation language to german, currently english, mainly for month names.
How do I do that?
I tried setting the locale in firefox about:config and then reloaded the citations in my file. But that didn't work.

Halp!

aurimas · December 8, 2014

If you mean https://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages#citations_and_bibliographies then try changing your citation style to something else and then back.

adamsmith · December 8, 2014

also, this will only work for some citation styles. Which are you using?

darsvaeda · December 8, 2014

I'm using Chicago 16th (full note). What aurimas proposed didn't work.

aurimas · December 8, 2014

Are you using Zotero Standalone or Zotero for Firefox or both?

adamsmith · December 8, 2014

(Chicago should definitely work, though, so that's not the problem)

darsvaeda · December 8, 2014

I'm using zotero 4.0.23 for Mac (standalone I suppose) and the firefox plugin 4.0.24.1

aurimas · December 8, 2014

Make sure you're changing the locale in Zotero Standalone via Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Open about:config.

adamsmith · December 8, 2014

have you changed the language settings in both? Just Standalone should be enough, but better to be sure.

darsvaeda · December 8, 2014

Oh you guys are great! This is not a forum this is a chat :D
I changed the locale in Zotero too and also the setting "matchOS" to false as proposed in the documentation.

Thanks :)