Sort order in bibliography

jp.friedenstab
Hi,

I have a problem with the sort order of author names in the bibliography. For example, "van der Aalst" is listed among the authors starting with "A", and not among those with a "V" (which would be the desired behavior for me). Is there any option I can include in my csl file to change this?

Thank you :)
  • adamsmith
    http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#name-particles
    has the details - I'm still finding my way with some of the newer features, so I can't give you actual code, but if you can't figure it out from the just ask here and Rintze or Frank will surely be glad to help.
  • fbennett
    CSL 1.0 should be able to produce the exact effect you're after, both in sort ordering and the display of names. The options (set by an attribute to the top-level "style" element) are documented here:

    http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#name-part-order

    (Scroll down to "Sorting order of latin/Cyrillic names")
  • HNP
    Could it be that this feature stopped working? After two years I re-opened my thesis - and I am pretty sure I didn't change any CSL code in the meantime. But when I refreshed the bibliography I fount that "De Waal" is now listed under "D" and "Van Deth" under "V". In my printed thesis it is the other way around...

    I tried Chicago (denote-non-dropping-particle="display-and-sort") and KZfSS (denote-non-dropping-particle="sort-only"). Shouldn't both have the effect I want to see, namely ignoring "De" and "Van" when sorting the bibliography?
  • HNP
    @adamsmith answered in another thread:

    "Zotero expects non-dropping particles to be added in lowercase, i.e. Van Deth is treated differently from van Deth. I get the expected sort&display behavior using the latter."

    So the solution would be to use lower case letters for the particles.
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