Sort author disambiguation by year

donsushi
I have a problem with various Zotero citation styles where, when a citation needs to use disambiguation, the year numbers all show up in random.

E.g. I have five references by an author "Pettis", which, when all cited at the same time ("Multiple Citations") come out like this:
(Pettis, 2010a, 2009a, 2009b, 2010b, 2010c) (American Psychological Association)
(Pettis 2009a; Pettis 2009b; Pettis 2010b; Pettis 2010c; Pettis 2010a) (Chicago Manual of Style author-date)
(Pettis 2009a; Pettis 2009b; Pettis 2010b; Pettis 2010c; Pettis 2010a) (American Political Science Association)

Please note how the dates and letters show up in random order. Is there a way to get Zotero to sort these citations, so they show up as "2009a, 2009b, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c"?
  • fbennett
    That's not normal. Do you get this in a fresh document? If not, try the steps for debugging broken documents. If so, which version of Zotero, and what platform (Mac, Windows etc.)?
  • donsushi
    I am using Zotero 2.1.8 on an Ubuntu Linux (Natty) operating system.

    I tried this in the Zotero Reference Test pane, though I get the same results in a fresh OpenOffice document.
  • donsushi
    Just set up Zotero on a virtual machine running Firefox and created a new profile and a new sample set of references.

    Turns out I entered one reference incorrectly. The name of the author is "Michael Pettis", but I forgot to enter his first name on one reference, which caused Zotero to sort the disambiguation entries incorrectly. Sorry for the trouble!

    So, if anyone else experiences this problem, please check your references first and make sure you have entered all information correctly as wrong or missing values will mess up the citation.
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