Antichronological ordering of references in moderncv using apacite

Question

I'm using the moderncv documentclass to create my CV and I need the reference list to adhere to the APA guidelines. I know biblatex provides sorting options but unfortunately moderncv does not support biblatex. I'm using multibib with apacite to split my references into different sublists.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{casual}
\moderncvcolor{grey}
\usepackage{apacite}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}

\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}

\makeatletter                           % subheadings in multibib as \subsection
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]
     {\subsection*{\refname}%
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\refname}{\MakeUppercase\refname}%
      \list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
           {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
            \leftmargin\labelwidth
            \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
            \@openbib@code
            \usecounter{enumiv}%
            \let\p@enumiv\@empty
            \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
      \sloppy
      \clubpenalty4000
      \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
      \widowpenalty4000%
      \sfcode`\.\@m}
     {\def\@noitemerr
       {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
      \endlist}
\makeatother

\usepackage{multibib}
\newcites{articles,conferences}{{Articles},{Conference contributions}}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{References}
\nocitearticles{article1,article2}
\bibliographystylearticles{apacite}
\bibliographyarticles{articles}
\nociteconferences{conference1,conference2}
\bibliographystyleconferences{apacite}
\bibliographyconferences{conferences}

\end{document}

Is there any way to get apacite to sort the publications by year? I've tried manually by assigning numbers from 1 to n to the key-attributes of each publication in the bib-file but the it is used only for citations. Also adding \phantom-characters to the author names did not work.

Furthermore, the references stretch across the entire width of the page instead of being printed in the right column only. Any ideas how this can be fixed?

Answer 1

I haven't found an automated way to solve this problem, but to manually order an apacite reference list \APACSortNoop is a possiblity. To sort the entries add {{\APACSortNoop{x}} in front of the name of your first authors and replace x with numbers from 1 to n. The references will be sorted in descending order.

@article{article1,
    Author = {{\APACSortNoop{1}}Doe, John and Jane, Doe},
    Title = {Title},
    Year = {2012},
    Journal = {Journal},
    Pages = {1--2},
    Volume = {1}
}

@article{article2,
    Author = {{\APACSortNoop{2}}Doe, John and Bar, Foo},
    Title = {Title},
    Year = {2009},
    Journal = {Journal},
    Pages = {1--2},
    Volume = {1}
}

I have also found a solution to the problem, that the reference lists spans across both columns. This is all pretty dirty though. I'm sure there must be a better way to handle this.

Embedding each reference list in a minipage, manually setting subections and paddings like this will work for the standard description column width on DIN A4 paper:

\usepackage{multibib}
\newcites{articles,conferences}{{},{}}

\section{References}
\vspace{-0.1cm}\subsection{Publications}
\vspace{-0.45cm}\hspace{3.15cm}\begin{minipage}{12.6cm}
    \nocitearticles{article1,article2}
    \bibliographystylearticles{apacite}
    \bibliographyarticles{articles}
\end{minipage}

\vspace{0.2cm}\subsection{Conference contributions}
\vspace{-0.45cm}\hspace{3.15cm}\begin{minipage}{12.6cm}
    \nociteconferences{conference1,conference2}
    \bibliographystyleconferences{apacite}
    \bibliographyconferences{conferences}
\end{minipage}