[OS X TeX] Language issue in Bibtex?

[G. M.-S.]

For babel, the main language is the last in the list.
In your example, it is Swedish.

HTH

Guillermo

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 21:21, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <
Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:

> I have a strange problem for which I’m not even sure how to provide a
> minimal example.
>
> I’m working on a paper which has references in a number of languages, so
> my preamble calls babel
>
> \usepackage[english, german, french, polish, swedish]{babel}
>
> I originally had mainly german and french references (other than english)
> and so the original version of this command listed only german and french.
> Recently, though, I noticed that the heading for my references is not
> “References” but “Referenser” which I first assumed was German now realize
> it is more likely Swedish (“reference” is “Referenz” in German but
> “Referens” in Swedish, and besides the German word is masculine so its
> plural ends in “-en"
> not “-er").
>
> In any case the heading is wrong.  I tried putting english first in the
> babel options, but that didn’t help.  Then I trashed my aux files but it
> didn’t help.
> I went and put my .bbl file in trash and that didn’t help.  What other
> options do I have to correct the heading?  I’m using latex and the article
> document class
>
> % !TEX TS-program = latex
> \documentclass{article}
>
>
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Professor Emeritus
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
>
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