ASA Style - Author-Year order broken in reference list
I am having trouble with the way the ASA style sorts the reference list. It should be first by author, then by year (not by title). This has apparently been an issue before: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/120425#Comment_120425
I have checked the style file in Zotero's viewer, even if I am not yet familiar with editing style files. As far as I have learned, the command "sort" handles this. This seems to be in order i(I just removed the "<" to be able to view the text). I found two occurences in the file:
sort>
key macro="author-short"/>
key macro="year-date"/>
/sort>
and
sort>
key macro="author"/>
key macro="year-date"/>
key variable="title"/>
/sort>
However, it generates this, which is obviously sorted by AUTHOR-TITLE:
Abbott, Andrew. 2001. Chaos of Disciplines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Abbott, Andrew. 1999. Department & Discipline : Chicago Sociology at One Hundred. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Abbott, Andrew. 2005. “Linked Ecologies: States and Universities as Environments for Professions.” Sociological Theory 23(3):245–274.
How does ASA work for other users in this respect? Is there anything I am doing wrong? I have come this far in problem-solving, but now I am completely lost.
I have checked the style file in Zotero's viewer, even if I am not yet familiar with editing style files. As far as I have learned, the command "sort" handles this. This seems to be in order i(I just removed the "<" to be able to view the text). I found two occurences in the file:
sort>
key macro="author-short"/>
key macro="year-date"/>
/sort>
and
sort>
key macro="author"/>
key macro="year-date"/>
key variable="title"/>
/sort>
However, it generates this, which is obviously sorted by AUTHOR-TITLE:
Abbott, Andrew. 2001. Chaos of Disciplines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Abbott, Andrew. 1999. Department & Discipline : Chicago Sociology at One Hundred. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Abbott, Andrew. 2005. “Linked Ecologies: States and Universities as Environments for Professions.” Sociological Theory 23(3):245–274.
How does ASA work for other users in this respect? Is there anything I am doing wrong? I have come this far in problem-solving, but now I am completely lost.
Is there anyone responsible for the style, or someone that doesn't have to learn from scratch before I jump into that project? And if I want to get involved, where do I start?
For other reasons I just did a clean install of windows, upgrading from Win 7 64 bit and Word 2013 to Win 10 64 bit and Word 2016, and of course a fresh install of Zotero, and synced my library back in from WebDav storage.
I just confirmed that the problem persists in the new install with a test document. Chosing Chicago A-D, APA and some other default styles sorts the bibliography chronologically, but switching back to ASA sorts it alphabetically (titles) again. So there definitely seems to be something going on with the style.
I would be glad to tinker a bit with this if it can help solving the problem, but I have no idea what to do.
By the way, I opened the styles editor and compared ASA, APA and Chicago A-D. Now I don't understand the code, but the sort command under the tag looks different in the three styles. Could this have something to do with it?
ASA:
sort>
key macro="author"/>
key macro="year-date"/>
key variable="title"/>
/sort>
APA:
sort>
key macro="author"/>
key macro="issued-sort" sort="ascending"/>
key macro="title"/>
/sort>
Chicago A-D:
sort>
key macro="contributors"/>
key variable="issued"/>
key variable="title"/>
/sort>
<key macro="year-date"/>
to
<key variable="issued"/>