Bug sorting bibliography with single field authors

JoshCraig

I've discovered what seems to be a bug when a bibliography gets sorted in Word.

I have a reference to a book with the author 'ANZ Group' entered as a single field. However, when I add a citation to it in Word and create a bibliography, it sorts it by the second word ('Group') instead of the first word.

I am using my own custom citation style, but the problem is not specific to my style. If I change the style to anything similar like American Political Science Association, American Sociological Association or Modern Humanities Research Association the problem persists.

I've played around with it a bit and discovered that it only happens when all of the following are true:

- the single author field has more than one word in it
- the first word is two or three letters long
- the first word starts with a,b,c or d.

It's doesn't seem to matter what type of item it is or how the first word is capitalised.

It's very odd. Has anyone come across this before?

aurimas

I have not seen anyone report this before (not recently anyway), but I can replicate it, so it's not just you. fbennett will have to take a look at this when he comes around.

fbennett

It looks like some unrelated code is interfering. I'll put up a patch later today.

JoshCraig

OK great. Thanks for the response.

fbennett

An updated version of the processor is now available which should fix this. You can try it by installing the processor patch plugin. All the plugin does is to swap in the latest version of the citation processor. You can remove it when the next Zotero release comes out.

mdt_

This is a very old discussion, but is this still a problem? I have a similar issue here:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/76022/institutional-author-wont-sort-correctly

I am assuming the patch here was absorbed into future versions of Zotero?

bwiernik

(Please don’t resurrect very old threads or post about the same issue in multiple places.)