Change "and" between Authors in Citation Style Files (csl)

Question

I tried a lot to change the word "and" between two Authors using a citation programm (Papers2, Mac) and a specific citation style file (.csl), but my efforts doesnt work. What I want to do is changing the "and" in the German "und", in both the citation inline and the reference list:

[Shaw and Riha, 2012]

Shaw, S. B., and S. J. Riha (2012), Title, J. Hydrol., 434-435(C), 46–54, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.02.034.

Does anybody know how I can configure this delimiter-word in the style file? Thanks in advance! Micha

Answer 1

Probably the best and easiest way to do this is to set the "default-locale" of this style to "de-DE" (for German), which should automatically result in the use of "und" instead of "and". See http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#the-root-element-cs-style .

Which style are you using?

Answer 2

It is likely that the CSL file was not properly loaded into Papers. As @RintzeZelle suggested, please make sure to change both the ID and the title in your new style. To override a built-in style in Papers (as coming from the official repo), you need to keep both the title and the ID, or else change both to create a separate style. In your case, it makes sense to have a separate style for the German version. I suggest to use the id http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-geophysical-union-german and the title American Geophysical Union (German).