Reverse chronological sort order in bibliography

komrade

Hi I'm making a custom style for putting a list of publications on a personal webpage.

I have got it sorting by year (then title) with
<sort>
<key variable="issued"/>
<key variable="title"/>
</sort>

But some people want this in reverse chronological order. Is this possible?

kieren

This would also be very useful for me. I've had a look at docs/source code but can't figure out how to sort bibliographies most recent first. The use case is providing a list of your own publications.

fbennett

According to the spec, this is supposed to work:<sort>
<key variable="issued" sort="descending"/>
<key variable="title"/>
</sort>

This works in the new processor (yay), I'm pretty sure it works fine with the current one as well.

komrade

Hi Frank,

Works perfectly thanks!

I've added a note in the wiki (csl syntax summary page).

toonvh

Thank you very much; I tried to sort by type, but that did not work (cf. below). Can someone help me?

<sort>
<key variable="type"/>
<key variable="issued"/>
<key variable="title"/>
</sort>

Many thanks, toon

adamsmith

type is not a variable - I don't think you can sort by type.

Any workaround is going to be super tedious. I'm thinking you could probably create a very-extensive macro, in which you assign a different text value to each type. You could then sort by that macro, though I believe you'd have to include it in the bibiliography for that to work.

toonvh

many thanks