Bibliography does not sort correctly for entries (books) with multiple editors

hpb1

Your help with the following issue would be appreciated:
Bibliography entries where a complete edited volume is referenced, e.g. 'Hernes, T./Maitlis, S. (Ed.) (2012): Process ...', are placed at the end of the bibliography rather than being inserted in the alphabetically correct order. Journal articles, books, and parts of books are fine.
Am I overlooking something simple?

adamsmith

Which style?

hpb1

The style is 'DIN 1505' (author, date - German)

adamsmith

Yeah, the style does that wrong -- it's a bit of a mess overall, though, so I'm not super motivated to try to fix it -- how tied are you to using it?

hpb1

Hi, thanks for checking so quickly!
Unfortunately I have to use this style (or something that is very close to it in terms of how the bibliography is shown). I actually looked through a lot of other styles but could not find one that was close enough for what I needed.
Any ideas what I could do?

adamsmith

What specifically is this for? Do you have a link to the requirements you have to follow?

FWIW, DIN 1505-2 is technically no longer valid and has been replaced by DIN ISO 690 (see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1505-2 )

hpb1

Unfortunately this is for the bibliography of a PhD thesis - no online version of the style requirements available but they are quite specific re. handling of number of authors, when to use et al. and so on. Which is why switching is not so easy.

bwiernik

Do you have a physical copy of these requirements written out?

hpb1

Yes, I have - it is in German, thus probably not lot of help.
Would it make sense to provide it to you?

adamsmith

Absolutely, yes. If you could scan/take pictures of the key pages & post them somewhere we can look at, that'd definitely help.

hpb1

Thanks a lot for the offered help.
At the following link I placed a pdf with the guideline for citation style and bibliography - it's not 100% the DIN 1505-2 style but quite close (I used the 1502 style in Zotero and made some minor adjustments to align with the department's requirements)

https://www.sharepa.com/download/sharepa_438e1aa7004d004fa72394aaa91380f3

adamsmith

Ich würde empfehlen hiermit anzufangen: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:hochschule-pforzheim-fakultat-fur-wirtschaft-und-recht

Wenn ich das richtig sehe, müssten vor allem die Autor_innen angepasst werden, was sehr schnell geht und der Stil ist ansonsten in sehr viel besserem Zustand.

hpb1

Many thanks/ vielen Dank! I will check it out.