Sorting the alphabetic citations with biblatex

Question

EDIT:@PLK In fact, this happens only with texlive 2016 (up to date) with biblatex 3.4, and not with texlive 2015 up to date.... I forgot that I was on texlive 2016, not on the stable one.

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EDIT:@PLK, this is the MWE. I do get the first picture, after xelatex-biber-xelatex, which is what I want, but if I compile again with xelatex only, then I lose it and get the second picture.

\documentclass{article}




  \usepackage{fontspec}
  \setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes}
  \usepackage{polyglossia}
  \setmainlanguage{spanish}
\setotherlanguage{german}

%\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber,   citetracker=true, citestyle=alphabetic, bibstyle=ieee-alphabetic, sorting=ynt,sortcites=true]{biblatex}


\addbibresource{testcite.bib} 


\usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{testcite.bib}
@book{a01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@book{a02,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
}
@article{c01,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Charlie},
}
@article{c02,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2004},
  title = {Charlie},
}

@article{c03,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {1978},
  title = {Charlie},
}
@article{c04,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {1981},
  title = {Charlie},
}

@article{ac01,
  author = {Cuthor, C. and Author, A.},
  year = {1987},
  title = {Charlie},
}
@article{ac02,
  author = {Cuthor, C. and Author, A.},
  year = {1973},
  title = {Charlie},
}

@article{ac03,
  author = {Cuthor, C. and Author, A.},
  year = {1981},
  title = {Charlie},
}
\end{filecontents}



\begin{document}
Refs. \cite{a01, a02, ac01, ac02, c01, c02, c03, c04, ac03}

\today

%\clearpage


\newrefcontext[sorting=nyt]
\selectlanguage{german}
\printbibliography[ heading=subbibliography,title={Journals}]
\endrefcontext
\end{document}

Edit:@PLK, you are right, but I print the bibliography with the sorting nyt, whereas I want the cites with, like you said, ynt... this is the code that I use to print the bibliography (I use xelatex)

\clearpage


\newrefcontext[sorting=nyt]
%\selectlanguage{english}
\printbibliography
\endrefcontext

When I put this newrefcontext, the sorting of the cites changes, from ynt to nyt!

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@murugan

check that you have the package filecontents and the file the title of your personal document.bib in the folder where you compile...

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I use the following settings and my citations are not ordered

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[citestyle=alphabetic,bibstyle=ieee-alphabetic, backend=biber,sortcites=true]{biblatex}
\renewbibmacro*{bbx:savehash}{} % Remove annoying dash
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{a01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@book{a02,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
}
@article{c01,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Charlie},
}
@article{c02,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2004},
  title = {Charlie},
}

@article{c03,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {1978},
  title = {Charlie},
}
@article{c04,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {1981},
  title = {Charlie},
}

@article{ac01,
  author = {Cuthor, C. and Author, A.},
  year = {1987},
  title = {Charlie},
}
@article{ac02,
  author = {Cuthor, C. and Author, A.},
  year = {1973},
  title = {Charlie},
}

@article{ac03,
  author = {Cuthor, C. and Author, A.},
  year = {1981},
  title = {Charlie},
}


\end{filecontents}



\begin{document}
Refs. \cite{a01, a02, ac01, ac02, c01, c02, c03, c04, ac03}\\
\end{document}

This is the order that I seek

• first sorting is by year
• for two items of the same year, order by name of the first author
• if the items have same year and same first author, put first the items which have only 1 author, then the items with co-authors [these items with co-authors will be sorted first by year, then alphabetically by the name of the first co-author]

I think I have stated all the cases. Explicitly, I get currently,

[Aut01; Aut02; CA73; CA81; CA87; Cut03; Cut04; Cut78; Cut81]

I want

[CA73; Cut78; Cut81; CA81; CA87; Aut01; Aut02; Cut03; Cut04]

Answer 1

Just add the biblatex option sorting=ynt to your biblatex options since sortcites uses the global sorting scheme. This gives you the order you want. If you want different sorting for the actual bibliography list, you can put your \printbibliography inside a \refsection with a different sorting scheme.