[Tex/LaTex] Twin reference in wrong order

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I have references for two papers written by the same authors in the same year. When I cite them, I see something like this [Landgren et al., 2016a] and [Landgren et al., 2016b]. The problem is that the paper with 2016a was published some months after the one with 2016b, in fact 2016a is a follow up of 2016b. How can I make latex swap the order of both papers, so the older paper is labeled with 2016a? I have specified the month in my .bib file but that doesn't change anything.

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Minimal bibtex:

@inproceedings{landgren2016distributed,
  title={On distributed cooperative decision-making in multiarmed bandits},
  author={Landgren, Peter and Srivastava, Vaibhav and Leonard, Naomi Ehrich},
  booktitle={Control Conference (ECC), 2016 European},
  pages={243--248},
  year={2016},
  month={may},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{landgren2016bdistributed,
  title={Distributed cooperative decision-making in multiarmed bandits: Frequentist and Bayesian algorithms},
  author={Landgren, Peter and Srivastava, Vaibhav and Leonard, Naomi Ehrich},
  booktitle={Decision and Control (CDC), 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on},
  pages={167--172},
  year={2016},
  month={sep},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Main tex

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}


\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{refs.bib}

\end{document}

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You can fix the issue without changing the bst file (and making the copy editors happy, if you're submitting the paper and apalike is the required bib style). The sorting order, when the same list of author is shared by two entries, is determined by the title.

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@inproceedings{landgren2016distributed,
  title={{\noopsort{A}{On}} distributed cooperative decision-making in multiarmed bandits},
  author={Landgren, Peter and Srivastava, Vaibhav and Leonard, Naomi Ehrich},
  booktitle={Control Conference (ECC), 2016 European},
  pages={243--248},
  year={2016},
  month=may,
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{landgren2016bdistributed,
  title={{\noopsort{B}{Distributed}} cooperative decision-making in multiarmed bandits: Frequentist and Bayesian algorithms},
  author={Landgren, Peter and Srivastava, Vaibhav and Leonard, Naomi Ehrich},
  booktitle={Decision and Control (CDC), 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on},
  pages={167--172},
  year={2016},
  month=sep,
  organization={IEEE}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{article}

\newcommand{\noopsort}[2]{#2}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

This way BibTeX sorts according to A and B, rather than according to On and Distributed.

I used filecontents* just for making the example self-contained.

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[Tex/LaTex] bibtex: Problem in Reference number Order

Since you put \listoffigures before your \cite commands, the first two cited references are the ones inside the \captions.

So they appear in the following order:

Ackermann02

Olsen09

Esteban04

Remondino06

Nguyen12

Moving \listoffigures at the end of the document solves the problem.

\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt, oneside]{Thesis}  % Use the "Thesis" style, based on the ECS Thesis style by Steve Gunn
%\documentclass{book}  % Use the "Thesis" style, based on the ECS Thesis style by Steve Gunn

\usepackage[square, numbers, comma, sort&compress]{natbib}  % Use the "Natbib" style for the references in the Bibliography
\usepackage{verbatim}  % Needed for the "comment" environment to make LaTeX comments
\usepackage{vector}  % Allows "\bvec{}" and "\buvec{}" for "blackboard" style 6
\usepackage{amssymb}


\begin{document}

\mainmatter   % Begin normal, numeric (1,2,3...) page numbering
\pagestyle{fancy}
%\input{Chapter1} % Introduction

This is the first \cite{Ackermann02}

\begin{figure}[h]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width = 0.4\textwidth]{Figure1.jpg}
 \caption{Figure1 \cite{Ackermann02}. }
 \label{fig:Figure1}
\end{figure}

This is the second \cite{Esteban04, Remondino06, Nguyen12}.

Sixth is this \cite{Olsen09}.

\begin{figure}[h]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[scale=1.0]{Figure2.eps}
     \hspace{ 5.5 mm}\caption{ (taken from \cite{Olsen09}). }
\label{fig:Figure2}
\end{figure}

\label{Bibliography}
\lhead{\emph{Bibliography}}  % Change the left side page header to "Bibliography"
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}  % Use the "unsrtnat" BibTeX style for formatting the Bibliography
\bibliography{Bibliography}  % The references (bibliography) information are stored in the file named "Bibliography.bib"

\lhead{\emph{List of Figures}}  % Set the left side page header to "List if Figures"
\listoffigures  % Write out the List of Figures

\end{document}  % The End

If you can not move \listoffigures at the end of the document, you can \nocite the references in the right order just after \begin{document}:

 \documentclass[a4paper, 11pt, oneside]{Thesis}  % Use the "Thesis" style, based on the ECS Thesis style by Steve Gunn
%\documentclass{book}  % Use the "Thesis" style, based on the ECS Thesis style by Steve Gunn

\usepackage[square, numbers, comma, sort&compress]{natbib}  % Use the "Natbib" style for the references in the Bibliography
\usepackage{verbatim}  % Needed for the "comment" environment to make LaTeX comments
\usepackage{vector}  % Allows "\bvec{}" and "\buvec{}" for "blackboard" style 6
\usepackage{amssymb}


\begin{document}

\nocite{Ackermann02}
\nocite{Esteban04}
\nocite{Remondino06}
\nocite{Nguyen12}
\nocite{Olsen09}

\lhead{\emph{List of Figures}}  % Set the left side page header to "List if Figures"
\listoffigures  % Write out the List of Figures

\mainmatter   % Begin normal, numeric (1,2,3...) page numbering
\pagestyle{fancy}
%\input{Chapter1} % Introduction

This is the first \cite{Ackermann02}

\begin{figure}[h]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width = 0.4\textwidth]{Figure1.jpg}
 \caption{Figure1 \cite{Ackermann02}. }
 \label{fig:Figure1}
\end{figure}

This is the second \cite{Esteban04, Remondino06, Nguyen12}.

Sixth is this \cite{Olsen09}.

\begin{figure}[h]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[scale=1.0]{Figure2.eps}
     \hspace{ 5.5 mm}\caption{ (taken from \cite{Olsen09}). }
\label{fig:Figure2}
\end{figure}

\label{Bibliography}
\lhead{\emph{Bibliography}}  % Change the left side page header to "Bibliography"
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}  % Use the "unsrtnat" BibTeX style for formatting the Bibliography
\bibliography{Bibliography}  % The references (bibliography) information are stored in the file named "Bibliography.bib"

\end{document}  % The End

There are still two possibilities:

If you don't need the link to the reference to be printed in the 'List of Figures' you can print the "short form" of the caption. For example substitute \caption{ (taken from \cite{Olsen09}). } with \caption[Fig. 2]{ (taken from \cite{Olsen09}). }. This way the corresponding \cite is not collected.
In the .bib file, put the references in the exact order they have to appear in the 'Bibliography' and put \nocite{*} just after \begin{document}. Anyaway, note that in this case all the references included in the .bib file will be printed, even the ones you have not \cited...

[Tex/LaTex] Wrong alphabetical order in .bbl file

As @UlrikeFischer has already pointed out in a comment, and as @Robert has confirmed in a separate answer, the alphabetical sorting mechanism employed by the plainnat and abbrvnat bibliography styles appears to thrown off if the citation keys of entries with the same first author are followed by either "et al" (for three or more authors) or just a single (second) author.

Until this issue is fixed by the author/maintainer of the natbib package, you'll have to employ the \noopsort device that's illustrated in the following example.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@preamble{ "\providecommand\noopsort[1]{}" }
@article{ABC14,
    author  = {Adrienne \noopsort{1}Abel and Bertha Barnett and Christine Conway},
    journal = {Journal 1},
    title   = {Title 1},
    year    = {2014},
}
@article{AD10,
    author  = {Adrienne \noopsort{2}Abel and Deirdre Donald},
    journal = {Journal 2},
    title   = {Title 2},
    year    = {2010},
}
\end{filecontents}

\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{document}

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