BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ \citet german but want english

[schaedelkeks]

Hi,

i have a problem using \citet{}.

The problem is that the citation comes out in the format "<name> u. a." and not "<name> et al.".

I'm writing the document on a computer with german locale but in my latex headers i have "\usepackage[USenglish]{babel}". As far as i know that is the only command to the set the language of the document.

The other header commands are:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,12pt]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{varioref}
\usepackage{expdlist}
\usepackage{scrpage2}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{pdfsync}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{bnf}
\usepackage[miktex,noshell]{dot2texi}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amsfonts}

[localghost]

[...] The problem is that the citation comes out in the format "<name> u. a." and not "<name> et al.". [...]

The localization of the system is unimportant. The relevant language is that given as option to the babel package. The followings works as desired.

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\begin{filecontents*}{xmpl.bib}
@article{menzel2006,
  title={{M}agnetic properties under pressure and \textsc{Raman} investigations of \ce{Fe_{x}Co_{1-x}Si} single crystals},
  author={{D}.~{M}enzel and {M}.~{F}inke and {T}.~Donig and {A}.-{M}.~Racu and {J}.~{S}choenes},
  institution={{I}nstitut für {P}hysik der {K}ondensierten {M}aterie, {T}echnische {U}niversität {B}raunschweig, {D}-38106 {B}raunschweig, {G}ermany},
  journal={{P}hysica {B}: {P}hysics of {C}ondensed {M}atter},
  volume={378},
  pages={718-719},
  publisher={ELSEVIER}
}\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage[automark]{scrpage2}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}

\begin{document}
  \citet{menzel2006}
  \bibliographystyle{abbrnat}
  \bibliography{xmpl}
\end{document}

Reduce the problematic code to a minimal working example (MWE) to give us something we can tinker with.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[schaedelkeks]

I found the problem, it was

\bibliographystyle{natdin},

after i changed this to

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

it now works correctly. I suppose this changes somehow the bibliography is displayed but both of the them look fine for me.

[localghost]

The natdin style works also for me and yields the desired result for citations. Hence this can't be the cause. The only difference is the display of author names in the bibliography. But it's more important that it works for you.