American Society of Microbiology style sorted alphabetically

lotuspixie

The American Society of Microbiology style is supposed to sort the bibliography alphabetically, but it is not doing so with the Zotero plugin in Word. I am comfortable playing around with the csl code and trying it out, but I don't know what text to substitute/add. The bibliography part of the csl as downloaded from Zotero says this:

</macro>
<citation collapse="citation-number">
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter=", ">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>
</citation>
<bibliography entry-spacing="1" line-spacing="2" second-field-align="flush">
<layout suffix=".">
<text variable="citation-number" suffix=". "/>
<text macro="author"/>
<text macro="issued"/>
<text variable="title" prefix=" "/>
<text macro="chapter-specifics"/>
<text macro="patent-specifics"/>
<text macro="container-title"/>
<text macro="edition"/>
<text macro="publisher"/>
<text macro="locators"/>
</layout>
</bibliography>
</style>


What do I need to add/change?

Thank you in advance for your help!

adamsmith

<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key macro="issued"/>
</sort>

right between bibliography and layout.

Rintze

The American Society of Microbiology style is supposed to sort the bibliography alphabetically

Is that really the case? Which journal instructions are you looking at? http://aem.asm.org/site/misc/journal-ita_org.xhtml#03 says "In the reference list, references are numbered in the order in which they are cited in the article (citation-sequence reference system)".

lotuspixie

Rintze: the Journal of Microbiology and Microbiology Education (run by ASM) instructions to authors states that references need to be listed alphabetically and formatted according to ASM style. So I misspoke: I need a tweaked ASM style for one of ASM's particular journals.

lotuspixie

And thank you, adamsmith, that worked.