Bibliography sort wrong with multiple works by author (wordplugin)

dmullens
I'm using the word plugin on Word 2007 (windows 7). When I do a bibliography in word using the MLA format, the sort is wrong when I have multiple authors. Here is what I get:

---. Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006. Print.

---. The New Testament and the People of God. 1st ed. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1992. Print.

Wright, Nicholas Thomas. Jesus and the Victory of God. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1997. Print.

As you can see, the author for all three books is listed last and the books are sorted wrong. This has happened with more than one author.

I looked through the forums and did some searches, but I'm not coming up with much. I looked at the MLA stylesheet XML and it looks fine (as far as I can tell). I'm wondering if it is trying to sort on the "---"...but I don't know.

Any insights/help is greatly appreciated! - Dave.
  • adamsmith
    first glance looks like the sorting bug
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9530/openoffice-integration-reference-sorting-goes-haywire
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9971/problem-sorting-3-references/
  • dmullens
    Yea..it is something like that but it has to do with an author who has multiple books rather than a date issue.

    I was going to try the patch, but noticed that the patch had to add this line:

    var clone = new Zotero.CSL.Citation(undefined, this._csl);

    And this was _already_ in the csl.js file:

    var clone = new Zotero.CSL.Citation(null, this._csl);

    I don't know that much about js, so I don't know if an undefined is the same as a null or not. I'm also unsure on if my csl.js has already been patched with the sort fix. If so...it doesn't fix my current problem.

    Thanks for any insights.
  • dmullens
    Hmmm...maybe it is the date sort bug because I notice it is sorting by date, not by author. I had checked it earlier and I believe that the MLA code was set to sort by author...not date. I'm confused right now...
  • adamsmith
    the patch has since been implemented - but it only fixes some of the issues.
  • dmullens
    Okay. I'm not sure what I did, but things are working now. I updated some of my bibliography sources and I also installed the JDK (before that I just had the JRE). I doubt if that had anything to do with it, but I thought I'd throw it in just the same. It seems to be working now.

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