sorting dates in brackets

konradz

I was wondering if it would be possible to implement the feature that would allow for sorting the dates in brackets. Let's say that I put one author X and I'm referring to few publications by him. In paper it looks like that (X 2003, 2008, 2002, 1999) assuming that I am using Harvard style. I would like to know if it would be possible to have those dates in brackets sorted so they would like that (X 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008) or other way round.

adamsmith

yes - that's an existing feature that is coded into the style (or not).
Harvard 1 doesn't have this coded, but, e.g. APA does.
Then there is a box "keep items sorted" in the word plugin that, I believe, needs to be unchecked, but I keep confusing this.

konradz

Good to know, I've mac so have only those AppleScripts in Word. Maybe a daft question, will APA look the same as Harvard?

adamsmith

I think you should have the box nevertheless - it's in the window that pops-up when you select multiple citations.
APA will look roughly the same as Harvard, not exactly - it's an in-text, author-date style like Harvard, but with some different requirements.

konradz

You mean in that window: http://cl.ly/7ee13f79be92e20e309a ?

adamsmith

right - that window - I don't know exactly when the box appears - might be only when the items are being sorted, it used to be only when the citations was being created but I thought that was changed.

konradz

Hmm maybe it will appear if I switch to APA: http://cl.ly/e92a79f025f05c64430b Thanks!

konradz

BTW, is there a deviation of Harvard style that has this feature? That would be helpful.

adamsmith

don't think so - but you can easily do that yourself
see here for general instructions
http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits
specifically, put
<sort>
<key macro="author-short"/>
<key macro="year-date"/>
</sort>

between
<option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>
and
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">