{sorting} is about sorting document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be sorted.
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How to force a specific entry to be first in the bibliography?
I'm writing a paper and I need a specific entry in the bibliography go first in the list. The rest of entries should be sorted as usual. I use plain bibliography style and an external .bib file.
For ...
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Sorting swedish index with makeidx correctly
I have a problem getting makeidx sort the special characters of the swedish alphabet, å,ä and ö. They are supposed to be the last three positions, but they appear in the index before "A".
How can ...
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List of Figures sorted by Figure number
I am using
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
and the command \listoffigures to get the list of figures. Some figures are double-column, some are single-column, and LaTeX does not ...
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Sorting a manual bibliography alphabetically by their labels
How to sort the bibliography alphabetically by their labels
\begin{the bibliography}{10}
\bibitem[Polchinski, 1984]{jpol}
Polchinski,~J.
\newblock{(1984)},
\newblock Renormalization group and ...
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Get bibliography sorted by year in Elsevier article?
Using this code I can not get bibliography sorted by year. It is just mixed and even not in order of appearance in the myrefs.bib file (which is exactly by year).
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Sort subsections alphabetically
We need to make a paper that describes a list of interfaces. The assignment however says we need to sort the interfaces alphabetically. Because this list is quite long (20+) I am looking for a way to ...
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Sorting a clist in LaTeX3
I have a clist that I'd like to bubble sort. I'm sure this is a simple matter of something like \clist_bubblesort:N or something, but I don't know what the appropriate incantation is. A quick google ...
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Sectioning bibliography by type (with multiple types per section)
I would like to distinguish books from articles, manuals, etc. This can be done by using:
\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,title={Book References},type=book]
or
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Make nomenclature sort math correctly
I am sorting my nomenclature as suggested by the nomencl package documentation, but \dot{q} is being sorted before a and v, where as the desired sort is:
a
\dot{q}
v
The existence of a default ...
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How does BibTeX sort references?
How does LaTeX sort references as it is causing the first reference I have used to be numbered as [2] in the document rather than [1]. See below:
Technology has been introduced in various ways within ...
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1. Orderly sorting questions, 2.Resulting right answers using package exerquiz
I have two datasets, each containing problems dealing with a specific topic. These problems are stored in external files (again, one file per topic) and loaded into the datasets in a order. I need to ...
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Sorting to match a given list
I am looking for ideas on the following task. I want to sort the entries in \listb to those in \lista. It cannot always be assumed that only the elements of \lista are in \listb; neither can it be ...
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Index sorting where numbers are indexed
I have a vast document where I have a separate index of dates (really only the year or year range of particular events).
I'm using memoir.
Sometimes the year is known exactly
...
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BibTeX handling of the Dutch “van” name prefix with natbib
I want to produce the following with LaTeX/BibTeX:
In the running text:
... we refer the reader to the work of Van Noort (2010).
In the bibliography:
Thomas van Noort. An important paper. ...
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2answers
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Latex citations Bibtex. Wrong capital and alphabetical order [duplicate]
In my bibliography citations are ordered wrong. For example:
@inproceedings{17Degroot,
title={Critical scour: new bed protection design method},
author={De Groot, M.B.},
booktitle={Journal of ...
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How do I sort two glossaries (list of acronyms and list of symbols) differently?
I use the glossaries package to create a list of acronyms as well as a list of symbols.
\usepackage[acronym,style=long]{glossaries}
For the list of symbols the standard-glossary is used.
Now I ...
8
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order of multiple keys in \cite-command
The biblatex-command \cite{key} can take several keys, separated by a comma: \cite{ckey1,akey2,bkey3}.
The output is a list ordered alphabetically by surname: akey2; bkey3; ckey1 (where key of course ...
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a,b Designation for a lead author with different co-authors in the same year
Biblatex/biber
citation sorting: ynt
bibliography sorting: nyt
Citation1 - Appeared first in 2010
Darwin et al (2010):
Citation2 - Appeared second in 2010
Darwin et al (2010)
When cited, the ...
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Numeric representation of a string [duplicate]
I am able to sort more than one numeric column in pgfplotstable. However, since, I was not able to convert a string to a numeric value (e.g. via using hash of string), I could not sort data according ...
3
votes
1answer
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Sorting according to more than one key in pgfplotstable
Is it possible to sort rows of a pgfplotstable according to multiple keys?
For example, input file is as follows:
Mtx Kind P Sp
A LP 16 4.2
C OPT 16 72.5
A LP 64 20.3
B OPT 16 ...
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Sort .bib file from within TexShop
Is there a way to sort a BibTeX file from within TexShop? For instance, I would like to have all items of type @proceedings at the end of the file, and the items otherwise sorted alphabetically (say ...
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Is the biblatex toggle behavior expected or should the result stabilize [closed]
In my previous question an issue arose due to the use of multiple bibliographies in the given solution, that I extended here.
So the issue is that the numbering in the second bibliography toggles ...
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Biblatex/biber keep cycling and not settle when using custom sort
I'm trying to do a custom sort: citation order -> year/month -> author -> title
I think I got it in the style in the code below. However, when I run it: pdflatex -> biber -> pdflatex -> pdflatex. ...
5
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Possible to change sort order in natbib?
I have played a little with LaTeX lately and I really like it, it makes the document look top professional and makes structuring a report easy.
I am currently using it for a big assignment with lots ...
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Is there a BibTeX style that sorts references in reverse chronological order?
I am putting together a CV in latex, and I am trying to get my list of publications to display in reverse chronological order. I can use \bibliographystyle{unsrt} as a workaround, and just order the ...
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Biblatex: Chronological sorting in citations only [duplicate]
Presently I am using sort=nyt scheme, which correctly sorts the bibliography section. However, the citations are appearing as:
(Author1 et al. 2002; Author2 et al. 1975; Author3 et al. 1999)
I ...
3
votes
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Sorting a list based on the length of each entry
Is there a way to sort an itemized list based on the length of each item? Something like
\begin{Itemize}
\item a
\item aaaaaa
\item aaaa
\item aaa
\item aaaaa
\item aa
\end{Itemize}
which results ...
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votes
1answer
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Č doesn't sort in bibliography correctly but {\v C} does
I have an example here of an article document using pdflatex, bibtex, and natbib, where the Č character for Čermak isn't sorted in the bibliography correctly. I don't understand why not. Both files ...
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votes
2answers
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How to use a particular field in a specific entry type for sorting in biblatex
In answering this question: Creating Entry in Bibtex for Executive Orders I gave a biblatex solution which used a new entry type for Executive Orders. This particular entry type has no author, but ...
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Alphabetical order in natbib
I have read questions about this, and people say that it is just to include the natbib package and the plainnat style. For some reason my references will not sort alphabetically. Any help on this ...
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Indexing through texindy in imakeidx with custom .xdy style fails to produce desired order in index
I am trying to produce an index using texindy through the imakeidx make that follows the Sanskrit alphabetical order. I am working in XeLaTeX.
I created a custom .xdy style file to be called as an ...
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Sort by author in Alpha bibliography
Using the alpha bibliography style, citations are sorted by the citation key. I'd like to use the same style of authors-year citation keys (e.g., [CP92]) but have the bibliography sorted by the first ...
7
votes
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Sorting the bibliography by entry type
I am using BibTeX. For overall configuration I use a .cls file. I am looking for a way to sort the bibliography in this order: Books, articles, and miscellaneous. Currently all types of materials get ...
4
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1answer
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Bibliography style like ieeetr
Are there any bibliography styles that supports both ordering as in ieeetr and author-year (ie. John et al.)?
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Is it possible to get unsrt + abbrv bibliography?
Is there a ready made BibTeX bibliography style file that both: (1) prints author names abbreviated (like abbrv) in the references section and (2) sorts references numerically in citation order (like ...
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1answer
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Strange problem with BibTeX sorting
I know that Umlaute have to be avoided in BibTeX and I am using {\"a}, in fact I use BibDesk and it produces the correct LaTeX code. The sorting works for small characters, but I have one name ...
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Unsorted citations and floats
In attempting to answer this question Citations in order of appearance it's clear that unsorted citation schemes (ones in which the citations are numbered simply by order of appearance) can be easily ...
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Reference sorting within the .bst file
I am using a master thesis template which was prepared from my university. But when I compile my thesis, the references are sorting alphabetically instead of by appearance in the document. I have one ...
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Is there a bibtex style that sorts references according to publication type? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Sorting the bibliography by entry type
I am updating my CV and I was wondering if there exists a way to sort publications according to their type (articles, ...
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Bibtex style help - alphabetical sort
I have found a Bibtex style that suits my requirements very well as it presents my sources exactly how I want.
I am using the \nocite{*} command to display all my bibliography sources from my .bib ...
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votes
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Bibliography is not order by appearance
I have my document with my .bib. My problem is that I can't figure it out how can I do to have the numbers of the references ordered by appearance.
For instance when I cite \cite{website:Victhom} it ...
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numbering references in jabref [closed]
I'm using jabref for my references in latex. Slight problem is that the numbering of these references can't be changed within jabref itself. Is there some command to change the numbering of my ...
3
votes
1answer
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Automatically insert capital letters as alphabetical breakpoints in a sorted column of names
Recently I used LyX to prepare a list with 200+ guest names for a wedding (page 1 illustrated below). Actually, it was a table including invited family names, the number of persons of each invited ...
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Modifying existing code to sort a list of abbreviations
I have currently the Latex code written in the .cls file to display a list of abbreviations as follows:
\newcommand\listnomenclature{Abbreviations}
\usepackage{longtable}
...
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biblatex: Reverse numbering (i.e., count down)
I was wondering if it is possible to get the citation numbers to count down
[3] newest item
[2] item
[1] oldest item
in biblatex? I am sorting using either using sorting=none and entering in ...
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1answer
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A tool for creating a dictionary with right-to-left script
I'm trying to typeset a dictionnary, using Arabic script. I would like to create a list of words in three columns, with Arabic word in right column aligned to the right, its Polish translation aligned ...
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Multibib reverse label or sort order
I'm using multibib. I manually set the order of the bibliography. I would like the order of the numbered items to be reversed. For example, my document has:
\nociteX{Foo}
\nociteX{Bar}
And the ...
9
votes
1answer
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Bibtex reverse numbering
For my CV, I would like to reverse number publications (i.e., starting from the total number of publications all the way down to 1). Is this possible with plain LaTeX and BibTeX?
This question is ...
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How to sort the entries of a dictionary alphabetically?
This is a follow-up question to: How to automate a dictionary (sorting, headers)?
I was wondering if there is a way to sort the entries alphabetically in the following code.
I guess myself that ...
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unsrt not sorting references [closed]
I have a LaTeX document (article) with several references within it, and a separate BibTeX file with the bibliographical references. In my PDF file the references don't come up in order of [1], [2] ...
