Sorting bibliography by order of appearance in text? (Chicago 17th ed., note w/ Ibid.)

samuelmcurtis · May 9, 2020

Hi all,

Sorry if this has been asked before.. did a search but was unable to find it.

Would someone mind helping me figure out how to edit the chicago-note-bibliography-with-ibid.csl file to make it sort the contents of my bibliography by the order in which sources are used in the text?

Thanks for your help.

damnation · May 9, 2020

At the bottom of the style you'll see a section called "bibliography" that formats the bibliography. And the first part of that is a "sort" section. You can add another key for the variable "citation-number" above all the others and it'll sort in order the way they were cited.

General instructions here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

bwiernik · May 9, 2020

If you to that, you probably also want to make these changes:
1. In the line starting with "<bibliography", add second-field-align="flush"
2. In the "bibliography" section, just below "<layout>", add <text variable="citation-number" suffix="."/>

samuelmcurtis · May 9, 2020

@bwiernik, for step 2, do you mean to add {text variable="citation-number" suffix="."/} between these two lines:

{layout suffix="."}
{group delimiter=". "}

@damnation, It doesn't seem to be sorting correctly. I have another oddball requirement for this paper: the footnote numbering must reset on each page. Could that be screwing up sort by citation-number?

Apparently can't use chevrons in this forum without another command, hence the {}s. Would you mind sharing that command? Much appreciated!

bwiernik · May 9, 2020

To show code, wrap it in <code> </code> tags.

Yes, between those two lines. That will include the citation number in the bibliography entry.

Sorting by citation-number will sort in the order the citations appear in your document. This has nothing to do with the footnote numbers (which are controlled by Word, not Zotero).