Alphabetic order in bibliography with natbib package and author-less entries

Question

i'm new, so I hope to do everything correctly :D

My question is fairly simple:

I've the natbib package loaded in a document, and some bibliography entries have no author. Those entries are put at the beginning of the bibliography, creating a somehow bad effect on the reader (at a first glance to the bib first page is not possible to tell the order in which the entries are presented).

Question is: how do I change it?

What I've tried so far:

• the "key" field: it doesn't work. The following image presents what happens if I set "key={zzzzz}" for a bibliography entry with no author:

A working example:

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}

\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}

\title{Title}
\author{Name}
\date{Date}

\maketitle

Blah Blah \citet{aida}

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{thesisbib}

\end{document}

with:

@ELECTRONIC{aida,
  year = {2011-2012},
  title = {Aida database},
  organization = {Bureau Van Dijk},
  url = {http://aida.bvdep.com},
  key = {zzzzzz}
}

thanks!

Answer 1

The solution I propose is to use the cite package instead of natbib.

I encountered the same problem as you when citing websites. The only reason I used natbib was to numerically sort multiple citations ([1,3,4] instead of [3,4,1]), but the cite package also sorts citations.