How to change mixed language fields in Word bibliography

Question

I have created a Word document and added an IEEE styled bibliography. My native language is not English and the bibliography just looks mixed up.

It uses some English words and an English date format, and also uses my native words as well.

According to this tutorial, there must be an XML holding those fields.

How can I change these fields? Or what should I do about the mixed fields?

Answer 1

You will want to manually set the LCID (locale id) for the bibliography. To do that, you can just use a field code switch on the bibliography. The method is as below:

• Press Alt-F9 to view the field codes. You should see something like { BIBLIOGRAPHY } replace your bibliography. This is the bibliography field code.
• Alter the field code with your desired switch.
  • If you want to force all of your bibliography entries to be displayed in a particular language, use the \l switch followed by that language's id (which can be found here under "Language identifier", but I believe you have to convert the hex number to decimal to get it to work as an argument to the switch).
  • For example, for Hungarian, the hexadecimal value of the LCID is 0x040E, which in decimal is 1038, so you have to change the field code to { BIBLIOGRAPHY \l 1038 }.
• Press Alt-F9 again to hide the field codes.
• Update your bibliography. It should now be formatted with the correct language.

If you want to do this for only one source, though, you can manually change the language of that source in the Manage Sources dialogue box of Word: References >> Manage Sources >> select desired source to edit >> Edit... >> Language (top-right corner). If you do this, then you can use the \f flag of the bibliography field code to filter out any bibliography entries that are set to a language that isn't Default or the language you want. (This is especially useful if you have a variety of different languages in your bibliography.)

There are other ways to set the LCID values (e.g.: by editing the Sources.xml file under %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Bibliography\ directly, as referred to here), but these seem to be the easiest ways.

_{PS: I believe the field code method will only work if you have the language pack for that language installed (e.g.: I don't have a Hungarian language pack, so this method doesn't seem to work for me with Hungarian, but it does work with languages that I have language packs for). If you don't have the language pack for the language you want and you are not able to download it, this method will likely not work for you.}

Answer 2

A bit late but I also had the same issue. So I will provide my solution here

It is true that the "Available" is simply not translated. But you can translate that word in the xsl file of the style yourself.

To do that go to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Bibliography\Style and copy the style you want to translate. In the file give the citation style a different name (ideally do this in a text editor with search and replace) and then go to the word "Available" and change it to whatever it should be in you native language.

This should also work with any other styles than IEEE where some words are not translated.