[Tex/LaTex] Natbib Chronological Parenthetical Citations

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I'm using the natbib package along with the chicago bibliography style, however when creating a parenthetical citation in-text, the citations are ordered alphabetically instead of chronologically. Is there any package options that I would be able to use in order to achieve a parenthetical citation that is ordered chronologically?

Here is my preamble for reference:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[stable]{footmisc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[authoryear, round, sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[stable]{footmisc}
\usepackage[authoryear, round, sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\citep{cite1,cite2}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}
\bibliography{firstpaper}
\end{document}

Best Answer

To get the entries listed by \citep or \citet printed in the order in which they are input, rather than sorted alphabetically by authors' names, omit the option sort&compress when loading natbib.

If neither the sort nor the sort&compress options are set, the ordering of the citation callouts is determined by the way you sort the keys in the argument of the citation commands \citep and \citet.

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