# And="symbol" content

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/and-symbol-content/1593>\
**Category:** CSL Usage\
**Created:** [December 10, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/and-symbol-content/1593 "2019-12-10T16:03:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@lila](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/lila)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/and-symbol-content/1593/1 "2019-12-10T16:03:27Z")

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Hello,  
I am sorry if I am reposting something already asked, but the term of the query are too common to be searched, or I could not find anything relevant within the results.  
I am trying to understand if there is a correct way for changing the “symbol” option of the and for moltiple authors names into something different than “&”.  
I am not finding where this is set and I would like to use a slash instead.  
Thank you.  
Lila

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**Author:** ![Sebastian\_Karcher](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.citationstyles.org/sebastian_karcher/32/176_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Karcher](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Sebastian_Karcher)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/and-symbol-content/1593/2 "2019-12-10T18:02:33Z")

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you can’t currently (we might change that in the future), but could you describe what you’re trying to do with a couple of examples of 2-4 authors? It doesn’t sound like it should actually be necessary to use the and symbol.

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**Author:** ![lila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@lila](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/lila)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/and-symbol-content/1593/3 "2019-12-10T18:58:51Z")

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Thank you very much for you answer! You are perfectly right, I don’t need to change the “and symbol”!  
I just realized I had started my custom stylesheet with a bad example that uses the “and symbol” between just two authors, while I was planning to use a simple delimiter between them and I just need to change the “comma space” with my slash!