Upgrade Storagenumbered citation with sorting by author/year
Can I create a citation style with a bibliography sorted by author and year but using citation numbers to refer? Or is the citation number always as the sequence the citation is used inside the text?
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
</sort>
in the bibliography (provided the author macro is called author)
that will give you what you want - there are one or two such styles in the repository, unfortunately I forgot which ones - but since it's a one line change, you can just take whichever numbered styles fits your needs.