Citation in word puts source b before a quoting 2 publications by author of the same year

I am quoting two texts in one publication of the same author.
When adding the second source text, it will change my first reference to "(author 2019b)" and the second one to "(author 2019a)".

How can I swap that to make sure the first time I quote the author is referenced as "(author 2019a)" and the second time I mention said author it will be quoted as "(author 2019b)"?

The first text I´m mentioning is also the one that comes first in the publication, so I don´t understand why it changes the first reference to "b". Also, I tried to delete the one text and upload it again because I thought it might have to do with the order I uploaded the texts to Zotero, but that didn´t help.

  • Note that this is often correct -- it definitely is in APA style: citations are sorted by author, then title, in the reference list, and receive a/b/c suffixes based on their position in the reference list.

    You can change citation styles to change this by sorting citations by authors/year/citation-number (instead of title) both in text and in the bibliography -- and you should be able to find some threads here with details on how -- but there is a reason APA is doing this the way it does: this option has items sorted essentially randomly (i.e. by order of appearance) in an alphabetically sorted list of references, which is internally inconsistent.
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