intext citation - keeping same author together

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Hi, I’m a reasonably adept Endnote user, but this one has me stuck.  Couldn’t find it in the forums either, but could easily have missied it.

In the Citation preferences for my Style, I have set <omit repeated authors> and separate with <,>.

Using <sort by Year, Author> my citations appear as such:

Red 1977; Black 1978, 1979; Black et al. 1980; Black 1981, 1982 ; White 1983

I want it to do this (it’s the bold text):

Red 1977; Black 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 ; Black et al. 1980; White 1983

I’ve checked that Black’s initials are the same for all the references.  How do I force it to keep an author together to override the sorting by Year.  I can fix it by breaking the string of citations apart but wondered if I’m missing something obvious here?  Hope I’ve explained it clearly…

Thanks in advance

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No, unfortunately there is no option to selectively override the sort order for a specific citation within the group.

As a workaround why don’t you just edit the citation to hide the entries  then manually enter the citations in the  desired order? 

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Thanks Gecko,

I hadn’t thought about that - bit clunky, but in the absence of a sort, then it’ll fix it.

Cheers