Change the *et al* into its Chinese counterpart *等* for the Chinese bibliographies within endnote.

Hi all,

I use endnote to format my bibliographies which include both English
and Chinese entries.  Furthermore, I set the Language field to English
or Chinese according to the entry’s content respectively in order to
identify it.

My requirement is as follows:

1- For the author field, there should be only the first three authors
name are formated when a entry has more then three authors.

2- If a entry is English, i.e., its Language filed value is *English*,

then a *et al* is used to end-up the author
field for the case of more than three authors appeared in its author
field in the flowing form:

A, B, C, et al.

3-  If a entry is Chinese, i.e., its Language filed value is *Chinese*,

then the  Chinese counterpart for  *et al*,
i.e., *等*, should be used to end-up the author field for the case of
more than three authors appeared in its author field in the flowing form: 

A, B, C, 等. 

Any hints on this?

I don’t think Endnote itself has an algorithm to switch output styles depending on the entry in a specific field, and format each bibliography output using different output styles. If your journal specifically requests such formatting, find&replace “et al” with “等” in MS Word at the final steps in manuscript writing will be the fastest way.

 good idea, thank to myoshigi, I’m also dealing with the same problem when creating my Vietnamese references.

Hi,

I am just curious about the topic you are discussing - why do you have two different languages in your document? I am writing my thesis in german, using russian sources so I have two languages as well to deal with (plus transcription). But the whole text is only in *one* language, so the “et. al.” is in only one language, not in two.

Thanks and god luck!