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DCM
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Get a bibliography in French using BibTeX

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Hi all,

I am using BibTeX for the bibliography of a document that I write in French. I want the bibliography to be in French not in English. Can someone help me!!!!

Thanks.

Below you can see my preamble.

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[authoryear, sectionbib]{natbib}
\usepackage{chapterbib}

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Johannes_B
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Get a bibliography in French using BibTeX

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You need a bibliographystyle in french. A big drawback of the old BibTeX system is the hardcoding of strings.

You may want to take a look at the more modern system of biblatex with biber. That combination is aware of the document language and translates strings accordingly.
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/B ... _and_biber
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DCM
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Get a bibliography in French using BibTeX

Post by DCM »

Johannes_B wrote:You need a bibliographystyle in french. A big drawback of the old BibTeX system is the hardcoding of strings.

You may want to take a look at the more modern system of biblatex with biber. That combination is aware of the document language and translates strings accordingly.
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/B ... _and_biber
Thanks @Johannes_B for your help!!!
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