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I'm using multibib. I manually set the order of the bibliography. I would like the order of the numbered items to be reversed. For example, my document has:
\nociteX{Foo}
\nociteX{Bar}
And the document then shows:
[1] Foo
[2] Bar
I would like the document to show:
[2] Foo
[1] Bar
Can anyone explain what to change in my .bst file, or a flag to multibib that I am missing that will achieve this?
Use of refsegment will continue label numbering for you. To print a reference in just one sub-bibliography (and completely frustrate most readers), you can track the continuation number for each refsegment and skip any items whose label is less than that number.
In the example below the default sorting scheme is used, but it could be changed. To get the label numbers right, this approach will require a couple additional passes with latex. biblatex gives you a message whenever another pass is needed.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[sorting=none,style=numeric,refsegment=chapter,defernumbers=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\defbibheading{subbibliography}{%
\section*{Bibliography}}
\makeatletter
% Overall entry counter
\csnumgdef{blx@entrycount}{0}
\AtEveryBibitem{%
\csnumgdef{blx@entrycount}{\csuse{blx@entrycount}+1}}
% Continued from this label number
\appto{\newrefsegment}{%
\csnumgdef{blx@entrycount@\the\c@refsegment}{\csuse{blx@entrycount}+1}}
% Skip entries with label numbers less than the continued number
\defbibcheck{onlynew}{%
\ifnumless{\thefield{labelnumber}}{\csuse{blx@entrycount@\the\c@refsegment}}
{\skipentry}
{}}
\makeatother
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{companion,
author = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and Samarin, Alexander},
title = {The LaTeX Companion},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
location = {Reading, Mass.},
date = {1994}}
@Article{gillies,
author = {Gillies, Alexander},
title = {Herder and the Preparation of Goethe's Idea of World Literature},
journaltitle = {Publications of the English Goethe Society},
volume = {9},
date = {1933},
pages = {46--67}}
@Article{bertram,
author = {Bertram, Aaron and Wentworth, Richard},
title = {Gromov invariants for holomorphic maps on Riemann surfaces},
journaltitle = {J.~Amer. Math. Soc.},
volume = {9},
number = {2},
date = {1996},
pages = {529--571}}
@Book{poetics,
author = {Aristotle},
editor = {Lucas, D. W.},
title = {Poetics},
series = {Clarendon Aristotle},
publisher = {Clarendon Press},
location = {Oxford},
date = {1968}}
@Book{rhetoric,
author = {Aristotle},
editor = {Cope, Edward Meredith},
commentator = {Cope, Edward Meredith},
title = {The Rhetoric of Aristotle with a commentary by the late Edward Meredith Cope},
volumes = {3},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
date = {1877}}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\chapter{First}
\cites{companion}{rhetoric}
\printbibliography[segment=\therefsegment,check=onlynew,heading=subbibliography]
\chapter{Second}
\cites{companion}{bertram}{poetics}
\printbibliography[segment=\therefsegment,check=onlynew,heading=subbibliography]
\chapter{Third}
\cites{companion}{bertram}{gillies}{rhetoric}
\printbibliography[segment=\therefsegment,check=onlynew,heading=subbibliography]
\end{document}
Results for the first chapter:
And the second:
And the third:
A solution based on etoolbox is the following
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newcounter{mybibitem}
\AtBeginEnvironment{bibunit}{\setcounter{mybibitem}{0}}
\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{
\apptocmd{\@bibitem}{\stepcounter{mybibitem}[\themybibitem] }{}{}}
\makeatother
Best Answer
The
biblatexpackage offers features comparable to those ofmultibib. References from a singlebibfile can be subdivided using various options of\printbibliography. Examples includetype,keywordandcategory. Refer to thebiblatexmanual for details. Prefixes to thelabelnumberare specified with theprefixnumbersoption.Assuming each sub-bibliography has a unique prefix, descending label numbers can be obtained by altering the
labelnumberfield format so that it prints the value given by the total prefix-specific entry count, minus the actuallabelnumber, plus one.This solution works with either backend, though with
biberthe "rerun LaTeX" messages in the log may not stabilize. In any case heed the warning; the first time the message disappears after recompiling should give the correct document.