Upgrade StorageBibliography not in chronological order
Whenever I create a bibliography from a collection - regardless of the style - it does not come out in chronological order (after author names, of course). Nor is it reverse chronological order, it seems completely random. How do I fix this?
If there is a style that you think _should_ be sorting chronologically but doesn't, please provide a link/quote from its documentation and we'll fix that.
I need to use the Harvard Reference format, which really should be in chronological order.
It is also a bit random about whether it uses et al. or lists all authors when there are more than two. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong there as well..?
if you want to do it yourself, change
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key variable="title"/>
</sort>
to
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key variable="issued"/>
</sort>
http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits?s[]=csl
for directions.
It's a computer generated style, it doesn't (can't!) do anything "at random"
Harvard 1 uses et al. for more than 2 authors in the text and for more than 3 authors in the bibliography. It adds additional author names for disambiguation where necessary.
I'm using Chicago Author-Date Format, and it keeps listing the websites I cite out of order in the bibliography. They're not in alphabetical order, or ordered by date of access. I don't mind what order they appear in, as long as it is some discernable order. Can you help? Thank you!
I've figured out on Harvard Style 1 (which I am trying to modify to suit my needs) that if you add:
<sort><key variable="issued"/></sort>
just above the following line in the citations bit of the code:
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
you manage to put multi-citations in the text in chronological order, but with old ones first and most recent last. How can I reverse this so I have most recent first?
I do not know anything about quoting the "documentation" of the bibliographic style but hope you fix this soon as it currently renders Zotero unusable for my purposes!
Check out, for instance, American Sociological Association, American Political Science Association.
Thanks!
For ASA, the style is sorting by author, then by title. It would be good to have the specific requirement given by the guide, so that we know whether the date should be at a higher or lower priority than the title.
As for the American Sociological Association, I just checked the American Sociological Review - one of the association journals - and date should indeed be a higher priority than title.
Thanks for taking note of this!
The sociology styles however are still sorted by author then title.
An unambiguous example from an ASA journal following ASA style would do, too.
Here is a link to a recent American Sociological Review article:
http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/asr/Feb12ASRFeature.pdf
Look at the four references by Collins, Randall.
You can see that they're sorted by Author then date. Here is the relevant section from that bibliography:
Black, Donald. 1998. The Social Structure of Right and Wrong. New York: Academic Press.
Collins, Randall. 2004a. Interaction Ritual Chains. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Collins, Randall. 2004b. “Rituals of Solidarity and Secu- rity in the Wake of Terrorist Attack.” Sociological Theory 22:53–87.
Collins, Randall. 2008. Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Collins, Randall. 2010. “A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat.” Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 1:3–25 (http:// escholarship.org/uc/item/5mv6v0r1).
Cooney, Mark. 1998. Warriors and Peacemakers: How Third Parties Shape Violence. New York: New York University Press.