General ⇒ Citation order by year

[kelk]

I am trying to order my citations by year rather than author e.g. (Zimmer 1963, Andrews 2002). Using natbib I seem to only be able to order them alphabetically, or in the order they appear in the .tex file. Ideally I would rather not go through my entire document re-sorting every multiple citation (generally entered in random date order). I have tried various [sort] options for natbib but to no avail. Any suggestions?

[pumpkinegan]

Create a custom bibliography style by running

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latex makebst

from the command prompt. There are a series of multiple choice questions which should allow you to tailor what you want.

[kelk]

Thanks for the tip pumpkinegan. Downloaded and installed makebst (not in my default distribution). Citation options in the menu did not seem to offer what I need. I could delve into the code but am a week away from submission and two chapters still to write; no time for finding my way through TeX macros. Was really hoping there would be a 'ready made' option, but thats what I get for leaving it to the last minute!