General ⇒ alphabetical order of bibliography

[me_here_me]

Hi all

I have included bibliography in the following manner

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\bibliographystyle{plain}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{GI2007}

but my bibliography does not appear in aphabetical order. Infact its purely random.

can someone tell me a problem in my commands

regards

[Kris]

Hi!

What happens if You remove \nocite{*} ?

Regards
Kris

[me_here_me]

nothing happens at all

the are jam stuck in the order

regards

[Kris]

Hi!

plain-style should sort Your entries alphabetically after the name of the first author...
so if it don't do it right there's maybe an error in Your bibliography-data-file (.bib) ...

Check it for example with jabref - e.g. if the author name(s) are correct like:

... author = {Miller, B.A. and Shaw, D.G. and ...} ...

usual error-code:

author = {B.A. Miller, D.G. Shaw, ...}

Regards
Kris

[me_here_me]

hey
Thanks for the help:)

actually u seem right. I just pointed out some thing interesting. It is ordering but on the basis of last name. But as I am displaying the name in the correct order ("first name" "last name") it appears wrong

e.g:
author = "Gregory M. Nielson and Bernd Hamann",

it is ordered based on Nielson which appears second in the name and thus looks wrong by seeing.

can i do ordering based on first name?

best wishes

[Kris]

Ordering based on the first name? That's very unusual...
I don't know if a bibstyle for such an ordering exists already,
but maybe You can build Your own one with Bib-It.
(http://bib-it.sourceforge.net/) or makebst.tex
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackage ... custom-bib

After all, a correct version for your author-string should be:

author="Nielson, Gregory M. and Hamann, Bernd"


Regards
Kris