numeric + apa = aggro...

loenglish

Hi. I've been asked to create a weird Frankenstein's Monster style - superscripted numeric in-text citations, then the bibliography is in numeric order, with the rest of the citation in APA style. I managed to modify the APA style using the CSL editor to do this, but the in-text citations change numbers as I add citations so that they remain in alphabetical order by author (i.e. instead of intended 1,2,3 they change so they might be 1,3,2. This is driving me nuts - is there any way to fix this?

adamsmith

That's because you're still sorting the bibliography alphabetically (and some styles do actually require that). Remove the entire sort element for the bibliography section.

loenglish

Thank you! I had removed it for the in-text part, but not for the bibliography part. I think that worked!

adamsmith

You actually want
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
for the citation sort, otherwise you can get citations cited multiple times in the wrong order (i.e. [13, 7])

loenglish

Where would I put that in the code?

fbennett

Between <bibliography> and <layout>

adamsmith

no, between <citation...> and <layout> (you can also put it between <bibliography> and <layout>, but it won't change anything there)

fbennett

Oops, sorry!

loenglish

I went back to an earlier version and just took the sort out from the bibliography, not the in-text, and I think its in like that:

<citation collapse="citation-number"> [line 574]
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
<layout vertical-align="sup" delimiter=",">
<group>
<text variable="citation-number" vertical-align="sup"/>
<text macro="citation-locator"/>
</group>
</layout>
</citation>
<bibliography et-al-use-last="true" entry-spacing="0" line-spacing="2" hanging-indent="true">
<layout>


adamsmith

(you'll want to use text mode or put <code> tags around xml code when in Html mode)
Yes, that looks correct.

loenglish

Thanks! (And sorry about the html - I'll remember that ;-)