How to modify AuthorAndsReplacer?

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The author fields are like

author{Author, A. and Author, B. and Author, C.}.

Export filters that I use

\format[RTFChars,AuthorLastFirstAbbrCommas,AuthorAndsReplacer]{\author}

Which gives as output:

Author, A., Author, B. & Author, C.

One detail: when producing APA-style output, there needs to be an extra comma before the “&”. Like this:

Author, A. , Author, B., & Authors, C.

I would guess that I need to do this via the AuthorAndsReplacer, but I have no idea how… Any hints?

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Just a shot in the wild, but maybe regex works?

  • :regex("pattern", "replacement"): Applies regular expression pattern matching and replacement. For example,
    • [auth.etal:regex("\\.etal","EtAl"):regex("\\.","And")], the first regex() replaces .etal with EtAl. The second regex() replaces the . between entries with two authors with And

See here for regex syntax

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You might also try to use the Authors formatter with the AuthorLastSep?

It might be easier to start with the examples, even if they don’t cover your case in particular.