Bibliography orders on last name and year, how to include order by first name?

SuzanSierksma
edited March 19, 2022
I noticed a quirk in my bibliography: if two different authors share the same last name, their works are mixed together and ordered according to the year of publication. How can I change the csl-style so that the works of each author are summed up separately? In other words, how can I order them by 1) last name; 2) first name(s); 3) year of publication?

Should I alter the name macro? This section looks like this at the present:
</macro>
<macro name="sortnames">
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" name-as-sort-order="all" demote-non-dropping-particle="display-and-sort"/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<names variable="translator"/>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>

I've looked at the CSL specification and at this forum, but haven't found an answer yet. Any help is much appreciated!

  • SuzanSierksma
    PS copy-paste did not work apparently and I cannot find a way to post an image
    PPS Here is an example from my bibliography:

    Sanders, E. P. 1977. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress.
    Sanders, Boykin. 1981. ‘Imitating Paul: 1 Cor 4:16.’ The Harvard Theological Review 74: 353–363.
    Sanders, E. P. 1983. Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People. London: SCM.
    Sanders, E. P. 2009. ‘Paul between Judaism and Hellenism.’ In St. Paul among the Philosophers, edited by John D. Caputo and Linda Martín Alcoff. Indiana University Press, 74–90.

    I would like Boykin Sanders' article to appear first, and then the works of E.P. Sanders.
  • adamsmith
    Which citation style is this? If it's your own custom style, please share on pastebin.com or a similar platform.

    (To share code snippets here, use <code></code> tags, but for anything >~20 lines, please use external code sharing sites.)
  • bwiernik
    Change form to “long” in that macro
  • SuzanSierksma
    Thanks, @bwiernik, I entered
    name form="long"
    and that did the trick! So this question is hereby solved.

    @adamsmith, I used the style from 'Religion in the Roman Empire' (by Carl Johan Berglund) as a basis, but tweaked that to suit my own needs.

    Now the code of that section looks like this:

    <macro name="sortnames">
    <names variable="author">
    <name form="long" name-as-sort-order="all" demote-non-dropping-particle="display-and-sort"/>
    <substitute>
    <names variable="editor"/>
    <names variable="translator"/>
    </substitute>
    </names>
    </macro>
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