[Tex/LaTex] Elsarticle-harv : How to order bibliography in alphabetical order

Question

I am using an article with [authoryear] referencing throughout the text. However, when I compile the bibliography using \bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv} , the references are not given in alphabetical order, and the authors are listed as: 'Joe Bloggs', rather than 'Bloggs, J.'

Is there a simple way to change this to the alphabetical style and in the form: 'Bloggs, J (2010)….'?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I can think of only two things that may have happened to your document:

• you are not using the genuine elsarticle-harv bibliography style; or

• after changing the argument of \bibliographystyle to elsarticle-harv, you did not re-run LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more to fully propagate all changes stemming from the change in the argument of \bibliographystyle.

For sure, the genuine elsarticle-harv bibliographystyle (a) abbreviates the first and middle names of authors and places the initials after the surname and (b) sorts the entries alphabetically.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@misc{bloggs:2010,
   author  = "Joe Bloggs",
   title   = "Thoughts",
   year    = 2010,
}
@misc{author:2016,
   author  = "Annie Aardvark and Zebulon Zwicky",
   title   = "Deep Thoughts",
   year    = 2016,
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass[authoryear]{elsarticle}
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv}
\begin{document}
\citet{bloggs:2010}, \citet{author:2016}
\section*{References}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{document}