Sections 2.2 and 2.3 of the documentation of amsrefs describe using amsrefs without and with BibTeX. In section 2.2, without BibTeX it says:
• No sorting of the bibliography items is done. The entries will
appear in your document in the same order that they appeared in the
database files.
In section 2.3 with BibTeX you will find:
• you can take advantage of BibTEX’s ability to sort your items for you, ...
Thus out of the box, amsrefs without BibTeX will not sort bibliographies for you.
You need to format your bibliography file correctly. Writing
author = "{xxx yyy and aaa bbb}"
will be interpreted as a one single author whose name is simply a surname. You should write
author = {xxx yyy and aaa bbb}
or better
author = {yyy, xxx and bbb, aaa}
with each name as Last, First:
@TechReport{E:N:T:Z:2003,
author = {Elnikety, Sameh and Nahum, Erich and Tracey, John
and Zwaenepoel, Willy},
title = {Some Title},
institution = {Some Inst.},
year = 2003
}
@InProceedings{H:G:2001,
author = {Hun, Kau and Glanen, Diana},
title = {Some title},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the First International Workshop},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = 1,
pages = {304--305},
year = 2001,
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
address = {London, UK}
}
@Article{KG:2001,
author = {Kumar Ratnesh and Garg, Vijay K.},
title = {Some Title},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
year = 2001,
volume = 46,
number = 4,
pages = {593--606}
}
created with the latex file
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{MyRef}
\end{document}
A very good explanation of the syntax of bib files may be found in Part 3 of Tame the BeaST. As Jospeh Wright points out you can use "..." instead of {...} but using both as "{...}" will double quote the contents and lead to the unwanted interpretation of your input.
Best Answer
Use the
keyfield:Assuming you want the entry to be sorted as "RT TV Network", then use
The
urlfield is used only if the bibliography style knows about it. For example, withthen URLs are showed. And the contents of
keywill be used in place of the author.Example
The
filecontents*is just for having the.bibfile inside the source. Note also the braces to force capitalization.