Where do I set the output order of the bibliography

[mwra]

I've selected 55 hits in my Library - the hits are ordered by author name,. But when I export the list to a bibliography file, this list is formatted correctly but in the wrong order. It looks to be listing the items in the order they were selected as hits (which seems a really odd default). There is no associated document to scan. I just want the biblio listing to run in author/year order, as listed in the hits report.

How do I do this? I can't find this discussed in the Manual PDF.

[Jon]

It is using the order in which they were selected, and it's not odd at all. That's how numbered bibliographies work for scanned documents in which each citation appears in the bibliography in the order it was entered in the text.

The output order depends on your format. If you want it sorted, choose that option in the format.

Jon
Sonny Software

[mwra]

Um, I'm confused - I'm not using a scanned document as stated previously. The only order available is as in the hits list (author/year) and this isn't being honoured.

The output order depends on your format. If you want it sorted, choose that option in the format.

Thanks, but where? I've checked the Prefs (General, Refs, Scan & Bib) and the Formats Manager fro the format (ACM SIG) that I'm using. I can't find anything labelled 'sort'.

TIA.

(edit: typo)

[mwra]

Aha, it's under 'Alphabetise references' on the 'Bibliographic Options' tab of the selected format in the format manager. Shown here below, in case it helps others still finding their way:



Thanks for all the quick responses today.