[Tex/LaTex] Sorting bib entries in amsrefs

Question

Is there any way to automatically sort the entries within a biblist environment?
For example sort alphabetically by author names, type of entry, etc. .
Unfortunately I haven't found anything in the documentation.

Answer 1

Sections 2.2 and 2.3 of the documentation of amsrefs describe using amsrefs without and with BibTeX. In section 2.2, without BibTeX it says:

• No sorting of the bibliography items is done. The entries will appear in your document in the same order that they appeared in the database files.

In section 2.3 with BibTeX you will find:

• you can take advantage of BibTEX’s ability to sort your items for you, ...

Thus out of the box, amsrefs without BibTeX will not sort bibliographies for you.