[Tex/LaTex] biblatex – quote in chronological order but bibliography list must be alphabetical order

biblatexcitingsorting

I want to use more than one type of specification in my bibliography. I want to quote in chronological order but have the bibliography list in alphabetical order.

If I am quoting 2-3 references in the middle of my thesis writing, I want them to be displayed in chronological order.

e.g.

{biblatex}

The human race has had a fast and accelerating growth in terms of technology and communication, in the past decade, [Turner, 2001; Allis
et al., 2007].

{bibliography}

But When the bibliography is displayed at the end of the document, I want them to be displayed in alphabetical order

e.g.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allis, C. D., Jenuwein, T., Reinberg, D., and Caparros, M. L. (2007). Epigenetics. Cold Spring Harbor Press

Turner, B. M. (2001). Chromatin and Gene Regulation – Mechanisms in Epigenetics. 2nd Edition, BlackWell Science Ltd.

How should this be achieved given than I use bib latex package? I have not pasted the code of my biblatex line, but I hope that some1 can help me sort this out as not many topics in this forum is handling it.

Best Answer

Having different sorting within the text and the bibliography is currently possible with the development versions of biblatex and biber.
(UPDATE: By now biblatey 2.x and corresponding biber are released and incuded in both MiKTeX and Texlive 2012.)

The sorting scheme for citations has to be defined in the preamble. The sorting scheme for the bibliography is defined as an option to \printbibliography.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sortcites,sorting=ynt]{biblatex}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet \parencite{cicero}.
At vero eos et accusam et justo \parencite{wassenberg,angenendt}.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet \parencite{wassenberg,cicero,angenendt}.
\printbibliography[sorting=nyt]
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex citation order

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.

[Tex/LaTex] Alphabetical order in natbib

The command to print the bibliography in natbib is \bibliography{<your-bib-file>}. You don't use \begin{thebibliography} ... \end{thebibliography}.

So the following document should work:

\documentclass[a4paper,norsk]{article}
\usepackage{amstext}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[comma,authoryear]{natbib}
\usepackage[norsk]{babel}
\usepackage[hmargin=3cm,vmargin=3.5cm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{plain}

\begin{document}
Insert some \cite{} commands here to your citations.

\printindex

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{<your-bib-file>} % Insert the name of your bib file here

\end{document}

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