Sonny Software

Apologies if this has come up before, but I have a question regarding how entries in the Bibliography are sorted. I'm using the APA 5th edition format (modified by myself to make it correspond to the APA manual--the one that comes with BE 9.0.4 is slightly off). I need entries sorted by authors, then date. It seems, however, that it's sorting authors based on how they're entered in the database rather than how they're printed in the Bibliography. Being a bit lazy, I don't make all of my authors the same, some may be entered as "Lovelace, CT" and others may be "Lovelace, C. T.", or "Lovelace, Christopher T." If I have the same author entered differently in different refs., BE may sort them incorrectly in the Bibl. It seems odd that BE would sort based on how something is entered in the database, given that the Bibl. sort order is defined by how names are printed there.

Is there a way to make BE sort Bibl. entries based on how names are printed in the Bibl., not how they're entered in the database?

Many thanks.

Chris Lovelace

Hi Chris,

As you see, the sort is based on the names entered in the database. There really is no other intelligent way of doing this. If this is a problem for you, you can use the Authors Term List to see all the names (as they are entered in the database). A global find/replace in the authors field will let you change the affected names to one form. If you do this, remember that the Term List will have to be updated to get rid of names that are no longer in the database (you can update by pressing the Delete key when the Term List window is in front).

Jon
Sonny Software