Bibliography ordering for multiple entries by the same author

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Hi,

I have come up against a problem with EndNote styles, and am hoping somebody here might be able to help.

I’m working on a book project which contains multiple sources by the same authors, often written in the same year. These references currently appear in the bibliography sorted by author, year & title, with a, b, c etc after the date as appropriate. But the alphabetical sorting means that they appear out of order in the text itself - i.e. Smith 2013c appears before Smith 2013a.

I want to sort the bibliography on three levels. First, alphabetically by author, second by year, and third by order of appearance. I have checked the bibliography sort order options in my style, but this doesn’t appear to be possible - order of appearance doesn’t seem to be one of the options available under the ‘other’ menu.

Has anybody found a way to do this?

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Well, in my experience, publishers define the sort order, and while it seems counterintuitive, that is the way is is supposed to be sorted. You can trick it - by incorporating a different field (usually manually manipulated for each publication) in the sort order, but it really isn’t worth it, and the publishers probably will reverse it, or make you correct it…

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In the “other” sort options you could choose a custom field and then add e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 in the custom field for those specific records you want to reorder. It could be a lot of work and as Leanne says the publisher may have there own order or precedence.