[Tex/LaTex] How to sort references by year if they have the same author

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I want to chronologically sort the citations where the author is printed only once (same author, 2 or more papers from different years). I am trying with the option "citestyle=authoryear-comp." However, it only works for some cases.
Here what I have in my .tex file :

\documentclass [12pt]{article}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,citestyle=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblio1.bib}
\begin{document}
\parencite{klaauw.96,klaauw.12}
\parencite{stineb.96,stineb.12}
\end{document}

And here what I have in my .bib file :

@article{klaauw.96,
title={{Female labour supply and marital status decisions: A life-cycle model}},
author={{van der Klaauw}, Wilbert},
journal={Review of Economic Studies},
volume = {63},
number = {2},
pages = {199–235},
year={1996}
}
@article{klaauw.12,
title={{On the Use of Expectations Data in Estimating Structural Dynamic Choice Models}},
author={{van der Klaauw}, Wilbert},
journal={Journal of Labor Economics},
volume = {30},
number = {3},
pages = {521–554},
year={2012}
}
@article{stineb.96,
title={{An empirical investigation of teacher attrition}},
author={{Stinebrickner}, Todd},
journal={Economics of Education Review},
volume = {17},
number = {2},
pages = {127–136},
year={1996}
}
@article{stineb.12,
title={{An analysis of occupational change and departure from the labor force: Evidence of the reasons that teachers leave}},
author={{Stinebrickner}, Todd},
journal={Journal of Human Resources},
volume = {37},
number = {1},
pages = {192–216},
year={2012}
}

I get :

(van der klaauw 1996, 2012)
(Stinebrickner 2012, 1996)

I don't understand why the outcome is not consistent. I think I should get :

(van der klaauw 1996, 2012)
(Stinebrickner 1996, 2012)

What am I doing wrong ?

Best Answer

Note that you are loading only the cite-style authoryear-comp with citestyle=authoryear-comp, you do not load the bibliography style. This you can see if you issue \printbibliography, it will have the format you get with bibstyle=numeric.

Because the bibliography style sets the sorting option, you are effectively using the sorting that numeric imposes and that is sorting=nty (name-title-year), but you expect sorting=nyt.

You have two options

Use style=authoryear-comp instead of citestyle=authoryear-comp, that way you also load theappropriate bibliography style
Specify sorting=nyt manually.

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Inspired by henrique's answer, the best way seems to use the sorttitle option, as explained in §3.5 of the biblatex documentation. According to that description, biblatex sorts in this order:

presort 2. sortkey 3. author 4. year 5. sorttitle, if defined, otherwise title.

No. 1 and 2 are normally left undefined. To override the sorting by title in 5, define sorttitle:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@BOOK{lennon1972a,
    AUTHOR = "John Lennon",
    TITLE = "My music",
    YEAR = "1972",
    SORTTITLE = "a"}
@BOOK{lennon1972b,
    AUTHOR = "John Lennon",
    TITLE = "More of my music",
    YEAR = "1972",
    SORTTITLE = "b"}
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[Tex/LaTex] Citing (author, journalabbr., year) needed

First thing to do is to add a field for the journal abbreviation to the article entrytype, journalabbr in the MWE. Therefore you need to declare a datamodel (an extra file; in the MWE I've used filecontents to simulate that) and you have to tell biblatex/biber to use it in the package options.

Then you have to modify the cite command, so it fits your needs. \citep from the authoryear-style (your citestyle) uses the \cite command. There you just have to add a switch, which checks if the field journalabbr is empty or not, and prints it out or not.

Last but not least you have to add the abbreviation fields to the entries.

MWE:

\begin{filecontents}{min.bib}
@article{boisson2003unexpected,
  title={Unexpected protein families including cell defense components feature in the N-myristoylome of a higher eukaryote},
  author={Boisson, B. and Giglione, Carmela and Meinnel, Thierry},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  journalabbr={JBC},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ASBMB}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\ProvidesFile{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=literal]{journalabbr}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields[article]{journalabbr}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[fontsize=11pt, paper=a4, ngerman, DIV=calc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,isbn=false,natbib=true, citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authoryear,backend=biber,maxnames=1,maxcitenames=1,
,datamodel=authorjabbryear%added!
] {biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{ andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}} }

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \iffieldundef{journalabbr}{}{%
        \printfield{journalabbr}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}%
        }%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\addbibresource{min.bib}

\begin{document}

\citep{boisson2003unexpected} 

How it should look like: 

(Boisson et al., JBC, 2003)

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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