CSL and alphabetically numbered citations and bibliography

eckles · April 4, 2008

What I really want as a style is to have numbered references (e.g. [1]) where the numbers are decided by the alphebetical ordering of all the references in the bibliography, which is then numbered in the same way, e.g.
1. Barry, B., & Shapiro, D. L. ...
2. Bless, H., Mackie, D., & Schwarz, N. ...
3. Card, S., Moran, T., & Newell, A. ...

Note: This is different than the existing IEEE style, which numbers and orders the references by their order of appearance in the text.

This is the style for many ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications, especially those in human-computer interaction (e.g. http://www.chi2008.org/formatting.html#archive-format).

As far as I can tell, there is no way to do this using CSL and Zotero. Is this just a shortcoming of CSL? Any ideas? Thanks much.

(Also various hacks to achieve this don't work at all because of this bug: https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/985)

bdarcus · April 4, 2008

You can do it, at least in CSL. You just do the same thing you'd do with IEEE, but set the sorting for author-date (as in, say, APA).

lirani · April 28, 2008

A couple of us just made an ACM SIGCHI and CSCW template:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lirani/zotero_acm/

I hope this helps. Let us know if you find any bugs. The author mails are listed in the .csl file. Installation instructions are in the readme.

(I'm working on trying to submit this to the zotero people, but I can't figure out what they want me to do in terms of subversion...)