BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibliography sort on appearance

[bulbanos]

Hey,

I'm using

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\bibliographystyle{unsrt}

but I want my items to be sorted on their appearance in the text. Now it's displayed in the order it appears in my .bib file where I enter it manually. Is there a trick for that?

[localghost]

Exactly this bibliography style should work as desired. Consider the following example.

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\begin{filecontents*}{xmpl.bib}
@BOOK{knuth84,
  author={Donald Ervin Knuth},
  title={The \TeX book},
  year={1984},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley}
}
@BOOK{lamport94,
  author={Leslie Lamport},
  title={\LaTeX\ - A Document Preparation System},
  note={User's Guide and Reference Manual},
  year={1994},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  edition={Second}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\begin{document}
  \LaTeX\ was done by L.\ Lamport~\cite{lamport94}. \TeX\ has been programmed by Donald E.\ Knuth~\cite{knuth84}.

  \bibliographystyle{unsrt}
  \bibliography{xmpl}
\end{document}

As you can see, references are sorted by appearance in the text. Show the effect you described by means of a minimal working example (MWE).


Best regards
Thorsten

[flip1995]

Even though this thread is 11 years old, it appeared as the 3rd result in my google search for this problem.

My solution to this was pretty simple:

I had

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\usepackage[citestyle=numeric,style=numeric,backend=bibtex,sorting=none]{biblatex}
\nocite{*}
...
\cite{..}
\cite{..}
...
\backmatter
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

in my document. The

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\nocite{*}

command already counted as a citation to some of the references and therefore the sorting was weird.

Moving the

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\nocite{*}

down solved this problem:

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\backmatter
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]