Upgrade StorageUnwanted alphabetical bibliography order.
Hello everyone.
I'm using Zotero for the first time and I've experienced problem with bibliography order. And i kind of need your help to fix it.
In my text, bibliography isn't sorted from 1 to X in order in which i added them into document, but they automatically sort themselves in alphabetical order.
The result is that as I start reading my text the citations don't go like this:
-- Text text (1), text text (2) text (3) text text (4) text text (5)
...but rather like this:
-- text text (5) text text (3) text (1) text text (4) text text (2).
For the purposes of my work it is necessary to have citations sorted in order as they appeared in text for the first time. I'm using ISO-690 style.
Plus I need solution that also allows me to add a citation again somewhere in a text, even if the citation had been used already in the text. So for example, on the page let's say 15, after 20th citation, i can use the source that has been cited as (5) on the page 3, and on that 15th page it will actually be in the text as: (5)... so basically the citation will be given a number depending on in which order they appeared in the text for the FIRST time. But i think that won't be problem if the bibliography will be sorted not alphabetically, but rather in order in which the citations were added in the text.
Thanks in advance for response!
I'm using Zotero for the first time and I've experienced problem with bibliography order. And i kind of need your help to fix it.
In my text, bibliography isn't sorted from 1 to X in order in which i added them into document, but they automatically sort themselves in alphabetical order.
The result is that as I start reading my text the citations don't go like this:
-- Text text (1), text text (2) text (3) text text (4) text text (5)
...but rather like this:
-- text text (5) text text (3) text (1) text text (4) text text (2).
For the purposes of my work it is necessary to have citations sorted in order as they appeared in text for the first time. I'm using ISO-690 style.
Plus I need solution that also allows me to add a citation again somewhere in a text, even if the citation had been used already in the text. So for example, on the page let's say 15, after 20th citation, i can use the source that has been cited as (5) on the page 3, and on that 15th page it will actually be in the text as: (5)... so basically the citation will be given a number depending on in which order they appeared in the text for the FIRST time. But i think that won't be problem if the bibliography will be sorted not alphabetically, but rather in order in which the citations were added in the text.
Thanks in advance for response!
TL;DR: i need to fix the order of bibliography, so citations will be sorted in order i put them in the document (so they will appear in text in order (1)(2)(3) ). At this moment whenever i put citation it will sort whole bibliography alphabetically so for example first citation i put in the text is marked as (3), second is (7) etc. Thanks :)
That style sorts by number of appearance in text and in the bibliography:
https://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http://www.zotero.org/styles/iso690-numeric-en
That style indeed sorts alphabetically. You'll need to modify the style.
Search for the word "sort" in the style. It'll appear in two sections, the in text (citation) and the bibliography section. Copy the first and replace the second one.
Follow this guide in detail as you'll need to also change ID etc.
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
Thanks a lot!