[Tex/LaTex] Forcing bibliography order

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I've a bibliography which include websites. I want to have an alphabetical sort. Thus I use the plain style which do the job great. The problem is websites are less important than others references and I would like to put them at last.

Is it possible to force that?

Here is a part of the BibTex file :

@Misc{wikianglais,
title = {\url{http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack}},
month = {mai},
year = {2013}
}

@Book{Thorp,
author = {Edward O. Thorp},
ALTeditor = {},
title = {Beat the dealer},
publisher = {Vintage Books Edition},
year = {1966},
month = {février}
}

@Book{Braun,
author = {Julian H. Braun},
ALTeditor = {•},
title = {How to play winning Blackjack},
publisher = {Data House Pub. Co},
year = {1980}
}

I would like to get : Braun, Thorp and then the Wikipedia reference but the actual order is : the Wikipedia reference, Braun, Thorp.

Best Answer

This is not a proper solution, but it works...

Add a "fake" key field

key = {zzzz}

in all your @Misc entries.

In this way the key field is used for sorting (and zzzz comes after all the other entries, I suppose), but it is not printed in the bibliography. BTW, I don't know any ALTeditor field.

So, changing your bibliography MWE to

@Misc{wikianglais,
key = {zzzz},
title = {\url{http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack}},
month = {mai},
year  = {2013}
}

@Book{Thorp,
author = {Edward O. Thorp},
ALTeditor = {},
title = {Beat the dealer},
publisher = {Vintage Books Edition},
year = {1966},
month = {février}
}

@Book{Braun,
author = {Julian H. Braun},
ALTeditor = {•},
title = {How to play winning Blackjack},
publisher = {Data House Pub. Co},
year = {1980}
}

should be enough.

A MWE just to test it:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Misc{wikianglais,
key = {zzzz},
title = {\url{http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack}},
month = {mai},
year  = {2013}
}

@Book{Thorp,
author = {Edward O. Thorp},
ALTeditor = {},
title = {Beat the dealer},
publisher = {Vintage Books Edition},
year = {1966},
month = {février}
}

@Book{Braun,
author = {Julian H. Braun},
ALTeditor = {•},
title = {How to play winning Blackjack},
publisher = {Data House Pub. Co},
year = {1980}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\cite{wikianglais} \cite{Thorp} \cite{Braun}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

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Annotations like "Editor" and "Translator" will be typeset at the start of the new line, which accounts for the possibility that the same person is author of one cited work and editor/translator of another.

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\renewcommand*{\bibnamedash}{}
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\renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{\addspace}

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%    {\printtext[parens]{\printdateextra}}}% DELETED
    {\printtext[brackets]{\printdateextra}}}% NEW

\renewbibmacro*{author}{%
  \ifboolexpr{
    test \ifuseauthor
    and
    not test {\ifnameundef{author}}
  }
    {\usebibmacro{bbx:dashcheck}
       {\bibnamedash}
       {\usebibmacro{bbx:savehash}%
        \printnames{author}%
%   \iffieldundef{authortype}% DELETED
%     {\setunit{\addspace}}% DELETED
%     {\setunit{\addcomma\space}}}% DELETED
    \setunit{\authoryearpunct}}% NEW
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       {}
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     \setunit*{\addspace}}%
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\renewbibmacro*{bbx:editor}[1]{%
  \ifboolexpr{
    test \ifuseeditor
    and
    not test {\ifnameundef{editor}}
  }
    {\usebibmacro{bbx:dashcheck}
       {\bibnamedash}
       {\printnames{editor}%
%   \setunit{\addcomma\space}% DELETED
    \setunit{\authoryearpunct}% NEW
    \usebibmacro{bbx:savehash}}%
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     \clearname{editor}%
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    {\global\undef\bbx@lasthash
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  \ifboolexpr{
    test \ifusetranslator
    and
    not test {\ifnameundef{translator}}
  }
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       {\bibnamedash}
       {\printnames{translator}%
%   \setunit{\addcomma\space}% DELETED
    \setunit{\authoryearpunct}% NEW
    \usebibmacro{bbx:savehash}}%
     \usebibmacro{translator+othersstrg}%
     \clearname{translator}%
     \setunit{\addspace}}%
    {\global\undef\bbx@lasthash
     \usebibmacro{labeltitle}%
     \setunit*{\addspace}}%
  \usebibmacro{date+extrayear}}

\makeatother

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{a01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@misc{a02,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {A title that goes to great lengthts in expounding the matter at hand and therefore doesn't fit into one line},
}
@misc{b03,
  editor = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Bravo},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

EDIT: Somehow this worked without the \makeatletter-\makeatother combo. Added nevertheless.

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Thank you everyone!

I have experimented a bit further, and some nice folk at LaTex community helped me figure out what's wrong.
In my 'Configure Texmaker', i actually had the wrong setting (as you can see form the screen cap)
I changed it back to "bibtex %.aux" and now it works!

And I also set the quickBuild to

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now it builds the bll and view the pdf automatically. Thank you so much everyone!

P.S. Thank you lockstep, from now on I will use the code button.
P.P.S.And TH, yea, that was the problem, I set the JabRef in the bibTex (I naively thought JabRef will help me compile the bib file).

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