BibTeX, biblatex and biberBibliography numbers appearing in the wrong order

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iron_nerd
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Bibliography numbers appearing in the wrong order

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I'm quite new to LaTeX and BiBTeX and I'm currently writing a report using TexMaker 1.9.2 and my Bibliography numbers are appearing in the wrong order i.e. the first reference is currently numbered [4], however the reference is for the correct paper.

Is there a way to put the references in the correct numerical order based on where they appear in my report?

Any help would be greatly appreciated and apologies if this post is in the wrong place.

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josephwright
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Re: Bibliography numbers appearing in the wrong order

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Tell us what BibTeX style you use! Some are sorted, some are not, so it depends on what you are doing.
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iron_nerd
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Re: Bibliography numbers appearing in the wrong order

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I'm using the plain style at the moment.
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Re: Bibliography numbers appearing in the wrong order

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Well "plain" is a sorted style, which means that references are sorted by (I think) author. You want something like unsrt, which is unsorted and so prints references in the order given.
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Re: Bibliography numbers appearing in the wrong order

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Thanks! unsrt appears to be working.
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