Wrong order of year suffix in in-citation/bibliography
Hello,
I have several references (web pages) that have the same publishing year and author.
I am using Cite Me Right Harvard 11th version, so when I add those references, the year suffix is automatically added.
But the problem is the suffix order is not correct.
It seems to me that the suffix is attached according to the title in alphabetical order, which is fine. But in-citations and bibliography show those references in a messed-up order. For example, in the case of in-citations, it comes up like (Truman, 1952c; 1952a; 1952b). What is the issue here?
Thank you in advance.
I have several references (web pages) that have the same publishing year and author.
I am using Cite Me Right Harvard 11th version, so when I add those references, the year suffix is automatically added.
But the problem is the suffix order is not correct.
It seems to me that the suffix is attached according to the title in alphabetical order, which is fine. But in-citations and bibliography show those references in a messed-up order. For example, in the case of in-citations, it comes up like (Truman, 1952c; 1952a; 1952b). What is the issue here?
Thank you in advance.
Reading this thread, I can confirm that Zotero was ordering the in-text citations of the same author and year by alphabetical order of the title of the work. So I would get, for example, Williams 2018b on page 10, then on page 20, Williams 2018a, when it should be the other way around.
I altered the title of the offending citations in Zotero such that the citation I wanted to appear first was alphabetically before the one I wanted to appear second. This has solved the problem in text, however now there are some strange looking titles in my reference list.
This is for my PhD thesis, which I am submitting on 30th Nov. 2022 (three weeks time). Please, does anyone have any advice on how to correct this issue?
Many thanks
Danielle
How are we able to go around this problem? I followed some of your earlier responses to similar issues, but it did not work for me, probably because of the APA 7 edition. I will be grateful for your assistance.
This is a common misunderstanding of APA style, but the last time it was true was APA 4th edition at the latest. Both APA 6th and 7th edition use the sorting that Zotero shows.
However, I added the citation number, and no changes took place as expected. check below:
<bibliography hanging-indent="true" et-al-min="21" et-al-use-first="19" et-al-use-last="true" entry-spacing="0" line-spacing="2">
<sort>
<key macro="author-sort"/>
<key macro="date-sort-group" sort="ascending"/>
<key macro="date-sort" sort="ascending"/>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
<key variable="status"/>
<key macro="title"/>
</sort>
Any advice or a better way of doing it?