In a single-column journal paper, I would like to sort the reference by the lastname of the first authors and also the citation style should be
(<LastName of first author, year>)
All the references are in the same .tex file where the paper's title and authors and abstract are also located.
\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{AnItemName}
LastName, J., LastName, Y., 2002, \emph{How to write a book}, Journal of MATH, 57, 1093-1111.
\end{thebibliography}
I cannot figure out how to do this even though I have checked
biblatex
. You also don't seem to use BibTeX, you seem to produce your bibliography manually. Before you look any further, check with the journal you want to publish if they have some sort of template or bibliography style for TeX available that you can use. If not you need to figure out whether you are going to produce your bibliography manually (thebibliography
) or with BibTeX (\bibliographystyle
), you shouldn't use the two together.