I would like my citations to be formatted according to the Chicago style, and at the same time numbered by order of appearance.
The sort&compress
option does work as expected using unsrt
bibliography style, with citations numbered by order of appearance. However, they get automatically sorted alphabetically as soon as I replace unsrt
with chicago
for the bibliography style:
\usepackage[numbers, sort&compress]{natbib}
... document...
\bibliographystyle{chicago}
\bibliography{main}
Is it possible to get citations styled according to chicago
but sorted according to unsrt
(that is, by order of appearance)?
Best Answer
Good news: You need to make only two small changes to the file
chicago.bst
to suppress the alphabetical sorting of the referenced items and, instead, to get them listed in the order they are first cited in the document.Find the file
chicago.bst
in your TeX distribution and make a copy of this file. Name the copy, say,mychicago.bst
. (Do not edit an original file of the TeX distribution directly.)Open the file
mychicago.bst
in your favorite text editor; the editor you use to edit your TeX files will do fine.Locate the two lines that start with
SORT
-- uppercase is important. In the copy ofchicago.bst
I found in my TeX distribution, the two lines in question are numbered 1565 and 1629.Comment out these two lines, e.g., by inserting a
%
sign at the start of each of the two lines.Save the file
mychicago.bst
, either to the directory that contains your main.tex
file or to a directory that's searched by your TeX distribution. If you choose the latter method, be sure to update the TeX filename database in a way that's appropriate for your TeX distribution. If you don't understand the preceding sentence, you should probably go with the first option.Start using the new bibliography style file by replacing the instruction
\bibliographystyle{chicago}
with\bibliographystyle{mychicago}
.As always after changing the bibliography style, be sure to run LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more on your document in order to fully propagate all changes.
The following example illustrates the effects of making use of the unsorted "chicago" style: