[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex descending order of references with labels not working

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I just downloaded TeX Live 2016 and it broke my CV which had my publications (single .bib file) divided by type. It used to print

Refereed Conference Publications
[C1]

Miscellaneous
[M5]
[M4]
[M3]
[M2]
[M1]

However after the update, the numbering was all over the place. Something like

Refereed Conference Publications
[C3]

Miscellaneous
[M13]
[M12]
[M11]
[M10]
[M9]

I was looking online and saw that they changed how \printbibliography works. Now, we are not allowed to put the prefixnumber as an option.

After looking in this site, I found this question and answer. This works for me now, but I am not able to print the labels, i.e.

Refereed Conference Publications
[1]

Miscellaneous
[5]
[4]
[3]
[2]
[1]

Is there a way to make it work with the labels?

Thanks!

EDIT 1: Here is a MWE

%% pdflatex MWE
%% biber MWE
%% pdflatex MWE
%% pdflatex MWE
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,roman]{moderncv}       

\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue} 
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ppl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{2.5cm}

\name{Miguel}{Velez}

\usepackage[defernumbers=true,sorting=none,backend=biber,style=numeric]{biblatex}

\AtDataInput{%
  \csnumgdef{entrycount:\therefsection:\thefield{entrytype}}{%
    \csuse{entrycount:\therefsection:\thefield{entrytype}}+1}}

\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumber}{\mkbibdesc{#1}}    
\newrobustcmd*{\mkbibdesc}[1]{%
  \number\numexpr\csuse{entrycount:\therefsection:\thefield{entrytype}}+1-#1\relax}

\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list
     {\printtext[labelnumberwidth]{% label format from numeric.bbx
        \printfield{labelprefix}%
        \printfield{labelnumber}}}
     {\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}% layout parameters from moderncvstyleclassic.sty
      \setlength{\labelwidth}{\hintscolumnwidth}%
      \setlength{\labelsep}{\separatorcolumnwidth}%
      \leftmargin\labelwidth%
      \advance\leftmargin\labelsep}%
      \sloppy\clubpenalty4000\widowpenalty4000}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}  

\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}  

\begin{document}
\makecvtitle

\section{Publications}
%\newrefcontext[labelprefix=C]
\nocite{WLS:ICSE76}%,VS:IUST16,VS:CCSC15,VS:MSRP15,V:SUMMA15,VGS:IUST14}
\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,title={Refereed Conference     Publications},type=inproceedings,resetnumbers=true]
%\newrefcontext[labelprefix=M]
\nocite{VS:IUST16,VS:CCSC15,VS:MSRP15,V:SUMMA15,VGS:IUST14}
\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,title={Miscellaneous},
type=misc,resetnumbers=true]

\end{document}

EDIT 2: Here is the .bib file used in the MWE

 @inproceedings{WLS:ICSE76,
 author = {Wulf, Wm. A. and London, Ralph L. and Shaw, Mary},
 title = {An Introduction to the Construction and Verification of Alphard Programs},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2Nd International Conference on Software Engineering},
 series = {ICSE '76},
 year = {1976},
 location = {San Francisco, California, USA},
 pages = {390--},
 url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800253.807708},
 acmid = {807708},
 publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
 address = IEEEAddr,
}

@misc{VS:IUST16,
 author = {Velez, Miguel and Sawin, Jason},
 title = {Improving the Efficiency of CHA through Parallelization},
 howpublished = {Poster. Inquiry at St. Thomas},
 month = {May},
 year = {2016},
}

@misc{VS:CCSC15,
 author = {Velez, Miguel and Sawin, Jason},
 title = {Faster {WAH} Compression Querying through the Use of Metadata},
 howpublished = {Poster. Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Midwest Region},
 year = {2015},
 note = {{1$^{st}$} place Discovery Track},
}

@misc{VS:MSRP15,
 author = {Velez, Miguel and Solar-Lezama, Armando},
 title = {Simpler Implementation of {Sketches} through Enhanced Expressiveness},
 howpublished = {Poster. MIT Summer Research Poster Session},
 year = {2015},
}

@misc{V:SUMMA15,
 author = {Velez, Miguel},
 title = {Current and Future Relationships Between Robots and Humans},
 howpublished = {Summa Cum Laude Paper},
 month = {April},
 year = {2015},
}

@misc{VGS:IUST14,
 author = {Velez, Miguel and Gittins, Peter and Sawin, Jason},
 title = {Extending {SMILES} to Encode Reaction Mechanisms},
 howpublished = {Poster. Inquiry at St. Thomas},
 month = {May},
 year = {2014},
}

Best Answer

If you add the following code in the preamble, this should solve your problem. However, it is not possible to cite correctly the entries. You will get wrong negative numbers when you cite the references.

\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\blx@printbibliography}
  {\blx@bibliography\blx@tempa}
  {\setcounter{bibitemtotal}{0}%
   \begingroup
   \def\do##1{\stepcounter{bibitemtotal}}%
   \dolistloop{\blx@tempa}%
   \endgroup
   \blx@bibliography\blx@tempa}{}{}
\makeatother

\newcounter{bibitemtotal}
\newrobustcmd*{\mkbibdesc}[1]{%
  \number\numexpr\value{bibitemtotal}+1-#1\relax}
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumber}{\mkbibdesc{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}

\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list
     {\printtext[labelnumberwidth]{\printfield{labelprefix}\printfield{labelnumber}}}
     {}%
      \renewcommand*{\makelabel}[1]{\hss##1}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}

Then you can just use the following to print the bibliography with your fileters:

\newrefcontext[labelprefix=B]
\printbibliography[type=book,resetnumbers=true]

\newrefcontext[labelprefix=J]
\printbibliography[type=article,resetnumbers=true]

\newrefcontext[labelprefix=C]
\printbibliography[type=inproceedings,resetnumbers=true]

Edit 1:

The full minimal example is here:

%% pdflatex MWE
%% biber MWE
%% pdflatex MWE
%% pdflatex MWE
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[
    backend=biber, 
    style=numeric,
    giveninits=true,
    maxcitenames=99,
    maxbibnames=99,
    sorting=ydnt,
    defernumbers=true,
    isbn=false,
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}


\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\blx@printbibliography}
  {\blx@bibliography\blx@tempa}
  {\setcounter{bibitemtotal}{0}%
   \begingroup
   \def\do##1{\stepcounter{bibitemtotal}}%
   \dolistloop{\blx@tempa}%
   \endgroup
   \blx@bibliography\blx@tempa}{}{}
\makeatother

\newcounter{bibitemtotal}
\newrobustcmd*{\mkbibdesc}[1]{%
  \number\numexpr\value{bibitemtotal}+1-#1\relax}
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumber}{\mkbibdesc{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}

\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list
     {\printtext[labelnumberwidth]{\printfield{labelprefix}\printfield{labelnumber}}}
     {}%
      \renewcommand*{\makelabel}[1]{\hss##1}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}


\begin{document}

\cite{A01} \cite{B02} \cite{C03}

\nocite{*}

\newrefcontext[labelprefix=B]
\printbibliography[title={Books},type=book,resetnumbers=true]

\newrefcontext[labelprefix=J]
\printbibliography[title={Journals},type=article,resetnumbers=true]

\newrefcontext[labelprefix=C]
\printbibliography[title={Conferences},type=inproceedings,resetnumbers=true]

\end{document}

And the .bib file used here is:

@book{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}

@article{B02,
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
  journal = {Journal B},
  url = {tex.stackexchange.com},
}

@inproceedings{C03,
  author = {Cesar, C.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Copter},
  booktitle = {Conference C},
}

@inproceedings{D04,
  author = {Diocleziano, D.},
  year = {2004},
  title = {De rerum naturae},
  booktitle = {Conference D},
}

@inproceedings{E04,
  author = {Eloise, E.},
  year = {2004},
  title = {Evidence},
  booktitle = {Conference E},
}

The resulting pdf is the following.

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There are two strategies to get references sorted in citation order.

1. Manual You add the bibliography items in a file which starts as

\begin{thebibliography}{99}

and ends with

\end{thebibliography}

You have to add the items exactly in the order you want, in the \bibitem{...}... form you showed in your question. Then you say, where the bibliography should appear,

\input{references}

Alternatively, you can include the whole thebibliography environment in the document. The number represents the maximum number of digits, so 99 is good for 10 to 99 items.

2. Automatic You prepare a references.bib file where you define your bibliography items in the following form

@book{alexander87,
  author={Alexander, R. D.},
  title{The Biology of Moral Systems},
  publisher={Aldine de Gruyter},
  address={New York},
  year={1987},
}
@article{axelrod80a,
  author={Axelrod, R.},
  title={Effective choice in the iterated prisoner's dilemma},
  journal={J. Confl. Resolut.},
  volume={24},
  year=1980,
  pages={3-25},
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You prepare your manuscript and, where the bibliography should appear, you write

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{references}

A run of the external program BibTeX will read the references.bib file and extract the relevant information, producing a file with extension .bbl that LaTeX will later input. After running BibTeX a couple of runs of LaTeX are necessary.

How you run BibTeX depends on the TeX environment you use (editor, distribution, operating system).

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You can achieve this by using the sorting=none option. Here is a fully working MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
    %backend=biber, 
    natbib=true,
    style=numeric,
    sorting=none
]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
   Aksin~\cite{aksin} says one in his article.
   Aristotle~\cite{aristotle:poetics} says two in his book.
   Angenendt~\cite{angenendt} says three in his article.
   And Augustine \cite{augustine} says four in his book.
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

From section 3.1.2 of the biblatex documentation:
biblatex knows various schemes for sorting, these are:

nty Sort by name, title, year.
nyt Sort by name, year, title.
nyvt Sort by name, year, volume, title.
anyt Sort by alphabetic label, name, year, title.
anyvt Sort by alphabetic label, name, year, volume, title.
ynt Sort by year, name, title.
ydnt Sort by year (descending), name, title.
none Do not sort at all. All entries are processed in citation order.
debug Sort by entry key. This is intended for debugging only.

If sorting still fails, try backend=biber, it is more stable especially with UTF8 .bib files.
Instead of calling (pdf)latex, bibtex, (pdf)latex, (pdf)latex
you would then instead call (pdf)latex, biber, (pdf)latex.

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