Text Formatting ⇒ Bibliography with [nameYY] instead of [number]

[Vickers]

Hi,

I'm the beginner in latex as I have been using it only to write my thesis so far. Now i need to rebuild the bibliography and I have some problems.

I need to change the way how the references show up - I don't want the numbers in square brackets as [1,2,3] but the names abbreviations with the year, i.e. [Bat99].
This is the small part of my bibliography.

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\begin{thebibliography}{999}
\bibitem[Tast10]{Tastevin_10} G. Tastevin, B.Glowacz and P.-J. Nacher, \textsl{J.Low Temp.Phys.}, \textbf{158} (2010) 339
\bibitem[Guo09]{Guo_09}W. Guo et al., \textsl{Phys.Rev.Lett.}, \textbf{102} (2009) 235301
\bibitem[Cole63]{Colegrove_63} F.D. Colegrove, L.D. Schearer, G.K. Walters, \textsl{Phys. Rev.} \textbf{132} (1963) 2561
\bibitem[Phe55]{Phelps_55} A.V.Phelps, \textsl{Phys.Rev.}, \textbf{99} (1955) 1307 
\end{thebibliography}

Everything is very nice but, when I cite a few references they don't show in the alphabetic order - I want [Cole63, Guo09, Phe55, Tast10] but i have the order of placing the citation. (I also had the same ordering problem with numbers - instead [1,4,67] I had [4,67,1].
The second thing is that in the list of references they are also not in alphabetic order but in the order I was writing them. Can you help me to solve the problem somehow to make the bibliography looking more friendly?


Thanks in advance,
Bart