sorting dates in brackets

konradz
I was wondering if it would be possible to implement the feature that would allow for sorting the dates in brackets. Let's say that I put one author X and I'm referring to few publications by him. In paper it looks like that (X 2003, 2008, 2002, 1999) assuming that I am using Harvard style. I would like to know if it would be possible to have those dates in brackets sorted so they would like that (X 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008) or other way round.
  • adamsmith
    yes - that's an existing feature that is coded into the style (or not).
    Harvard 1 doesn't have this coded, but, e.g. APA does.
    Then there is a box "keep items sorted" in the word plugin that, I believe, needs to be unchecked, but I keep confusing this.
  • konradz
    Good to know, I've mac so have only those AppleScripts in Word. Maybe a daft question, will APA look the same as Harvard?
  • adamsmith
    I think you should have the box nevertheless - it's in the window that pops-up when you select multiple citations.
    APA will look roughly the same as Harvard, not exactly - it's an in-text, author-date style like Harvard, but with some different requirements.
  • konradz
    You mean in that window: http://cl.ly/7ee13f79be92e20e309a ?
  • adamsmith
    right - that window - I don't know exactly when the box appears - might be only when the items are being sorted, it used to be only when the citations was being created but I thought that was changed.
  • konradz
    Hmm maybe it will appear if I switch to APA: http://cl.ly/e92a79f025f05c64430b Thanks!
  • konradz
    BTW, is there a deviation of Harvard style that has this feature? That would be helpful.
  • adamsmith
    don't think so - but you can easily do that yourself
    see here for general instructions
    http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits
    specifically, put
    <sort>
    <key macro="author-short"/>
    <key macro="year-date"/>
    </sort>

    between
    <option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>
    and
    <layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">

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