[Tex/LaTex] moderncv, list of publications newest first

moderncvsorting

How to organize the list of publication showing the newest first? Other users have suggested to use plainyr.bst, because this bst file already organizes by year, then change the single line from ITERATE {call.type$} to REVERSE {call.type$}, and save with a different name. I am not sure why but this simple procedure is not working for me, I get no output at all. However when compiling with plainyr.bst I do get the expected output with oldest publication first. Could anyone provide further help? I use MikTex2.9 Thanks.

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Because you gave us no minimal working example here just a guess and the way I do it for my own cv:

I have one special bib file, containing my works for the cv. I sort them by my own, so the first bib entry in the file is the newest one.

Then most of work is done. Now you can use style unsrtdin to get the wished result. I have used package filecontents to add a bib file.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@BOOK{book1,
  author    = {John Doe and John Smith},
  title     = {Title},
  publisher = {Publisher},
  edition   = {edition},
  year      = {2014},
}
@BOOK{book2,
  author    = {John Doe and Eva Smith},
  title     = {Title2},
  publisher = {Publisher2},
  edition   = {edition},
  year      = {2013},
}
@MISC{misc1,
  author = {Jim Knopf},
  title  = {Title},
  year   = {2012},
}
@MISC{misc2,
  author = {John Doe and Max Musterfrau},
  title  = {Title},
  year   = {2011},
}
\end{filecontents*}


\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} 
\moderncvstyle{casual}  
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

% personal data
\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\title{Resumé title}                  
\address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}
\mobile{+1~(234)~567~890}                          
\phone{+2~(345)~678~901}                           
\fax{+3~(456)~789~012}                         
\email{john@doe.org}                           
\homepage{www.johndoe.com}                     
\extrainfo{additional information}    
\photo[64pt][0.4pt]{example-image-a} % change image name 
\quote{Some quote}                    

\begin{document}

\selectlanguage{ngerman} % German cv

\makecvtitle

% Publications from a BibTeX file without multibib
\renewcommand{\refname}{Veröffentlichungen}  % instead "Publications"
\nocite{*}                   % cite all entrys in bib file
\bibliographystyle{unsrtdin} % german bib styles: gerplain, plaindin, unsrtdin
                             % compare with plain (wrong "and" instead German "und")
                             % gerplain: -> 12 errors \sc undefined, missing "`und"' or "`;"'
                             % plaindin, unsrtdin: unwanted bibitems
\bibliography{\jobname}      % bib file \jobname.bib

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Sorted list of publications in moderncv from bibtex

Here's a solution using bibtex and standard moderncv. You need to hack a suitable BibTeX style; a good starting point is plainyr, since it already has sorting by year and looks similar the mock-up in your question.

Make a copy of plainyr.bst (use kpsewhere or CTAN to find it) and call it, e.g., plainyrrev.bst.

Edit FUNCTION {output.bibitem} as follows:

FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  "\cvitem{" write$
  year write$
  "}" write$
  newline$
  "{" write$
  ""
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

Edit FUNCTION {fin.entry} as follows:

FUNCTION {fin.entry}
{ add.period$
  write$
  newline$
  "}" write$
}

Remove everything relating to the bibliography environment from FUNCTION {begin.bib} and FUNCTION {end.bib}:
```
FUNCTION {begin.bib}
{
}
```
and
```
FUNCTION {end.bib}
{
  newline$
}
```
Replace ITERATE {call.type$} by REVERSE {call.type$}.

Optional: If you want each year to appear only for the first paper of that year, add

STRINGS {oldyear}

FUNCTION {year.or.none}
{ 's :=
    oldyear empty$
     { s 'oldyear := s }
     { s oldyear =
         { "" }
         { s 'oldyear := s }
       if$
     }
    if$
}

before FUNCTION {output.bibitem} and there change the line

year write$

year year.or.none write$

(shamelessly adapted from this answer).

Then,

\documentclass{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}  
\moderncvcolor{blue}       

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  journal = {Good Journal},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@article{B02,
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  journal = {Very Good Journal},
  year = {2008},
  title = {Bravo},
}
@article{C03,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  journal = {Also Good Journal},
  year = {2004},
  title = {Charlie},
}
@article{D04,
  author = {Duthor, D.},
  year = {2004},
  journal = {Best Journal},
  title = {Delta},
}
\end{filecontents}

\firstname{E}
\familyname{Xample}
\begin{document}

\section{Publications}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plainyrrev}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

does the trick:

publications

[Tex/LaTex] Group bibliography by year and show header as cventry in moderncv

After playing with it a bit myself, I found two solutions:

Use the previous post you mentioned with a bit more tweaking to match multibib.
Use biblatex (I prefer this solution).

For the first solution, see answer to Sorted list of publications in moderncv from bibtex and plainyr-rev bibliography style (by Christian Plessl, see here). I used the combination of the two solutions as none of them worked by itself. Basically, I used the solution given in the answer, added the reverse sorting by year, and change one thing in the original answer - instead of leaving the FUNCTION {begin.bib} empty, use the following:

FUNCTION {begin.bib}
{ preamble$ empty$
    'skip$
    { preamble$ write$ newline$ }
  if$
  "\bibliographyhead{\refname}" write$ newline$
}

Now, you can use multibib normally, and you can remove the thebibliography environment defined in moderncv.cls.

The second solution is more elegant, and uses biblatex functionality. You can look at the answer given in Sorted list of publications in moderncv from bibtex to setup biblatex and moderncv, and use the answer in Multibib reverse label or sort order to understand how to use sectioned multi-bibliography with biblatex.

It simply works "out of the box". The only disadvantage I can think of is that this solution does not use the \cvitem environment provided by moderncv, but I don't think this is a real issue.

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