Bibliography in chronological order

SergioPiresBras · 2024-12-14T07:45:55+00:00

Hello, good morning,
Is there any command that organizes the bibliography in chronological order (for each author, from the oldest to the most recent)?
Thank you.

adamsmith · 2024-12-14T13:00:56+00:00

Most author date citation styles (e.g. Chicago author - date) would do this. Can you say a bit more about what you are trying to do if that isn't sufficient?

SergioPiresBras · 2024-12-14T14:12:12+00:00

Thanks for your reply.
I am using a style adapted to the Portuguese legal system. Ideally, the index should be arranged by the author's name and the publication date.

damnation · 2024-12-14T14:22:18+00:00

Without seeing the style it's a bit hard to give concrete help, but you'd want to have a sorting section in your bibliography like so:

<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key macro="year" sort="ascending"/>
</sort>

Here it uses the macros, but you can just use variable="author" also.

See https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step for how to edit a style and the CSL documentation on sorting: https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#sorting

SergioPiresBras · 2024-12-14T14:24:23+00:00

Thank you again.
I will try this solution and confirm later!
Best regards.

jatoibashir · 2024-12-15T08:02:27+00:00

Problem with Partitioning Bibliography in Zotero (Chicago Style)

Hello,

I’m using Zotero with the Chicago Manual of Style, but the bibliography is being listed only in chronological order. I want to partition it by document type (e.g., books, reports, published and unpublished theses) into separate sections. I tried doing this manually by cutting and pasting, but when I refresh the document, all my changes are lost, and it reverts to chronological order.

Is there a way to automatically organize the bibliography by document type without losing my custom sections when refreshing?

Thanks for your help!