BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ biblatex | Internal Sorting Concept

[boronian]

Dear all,

I didn't know how to formulate my problem in a simple search string, so maybe it was asked before. Sorry in this case!

I try to create a mere literature list, that is sorted after the nyt scheme. However two entries with the same first author and the same year are not sorted after the second author (as it is the case for all other entries), I guess because there are more authors in one of the entries and biblatex sorts it under "firstauthor et al.".

Here my example:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sorting=nyt,maxbibnames=20]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{lit.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

with the lit.bib:

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@ARTICLE{Frit1,
  author = {Fritz, U. and Alcalde, L. and Vargas-Ram\'{i}rez, M. and Goode, E. V. and Fabius-Turoblin, D. U. and Praschag, P.},
  title = {Northern genetic richness and southern purity, but just one species in the \textit{Chelonoidis chilensis} complex},
  journal = {Zoologica Scripta},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {41},
  pages = {220-232},
  doi = {10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00533.x}
}

@ARTICLE{Frit2,
  author = {Fritz, U. and Corti, C. and P\"{a}ckert, M.},
  title = {Mitochondrial DNA sequences suggest unexpected phylogenetic position
	of Corso-Sardinian grass snakes (\textit{Natrix cetti}) and do not
	support their species status, with notes on phylogeography and subspecies
	delineation of grass snakes},
  journal = {Organisms Diversity \& Evolution},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {12},
  pages = {71-80},
  doi = {10.1007/s13127-011-0069-8}
}

I would expect Frit2 to be listed after Frit1, which is actually not the case. Does anyone have an easy idea how to correct the observed behaviour?

Thanks a lot & best regards!

[meho_r]

Sorry for not being able to provide details (hope someone else will), and was able to do just some quick tests, and it seems that this issue of yours is related to bibtex sorting mechanism. If you're able to switch, try using biber instead of bibtex (which is recommended anyway) by specifying backend=biber option to biblatex and run:

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pdflatex
biber
pdflatex
pdflatex

Your example:

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\begin{filecontents}{lit.bib}
@ARTICLE{Frit1,
  author = {Fritz, U. and Alcalde, L. and Vargas-Ram\'{i}rez, M. and Goode, E. V. and Fabius-Turoblin, D. U. and Praschag, P.},
  title = {Northern genetic richness and southern purity, but just one species in the \textit{Chelonoidis chilensis} complex},
  journal = {Zoologica Scripta},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {41},
  pages = {220-232},
  doi = {10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00533.x}
}

@ARTICLE{Frit2,
  author = {Fritz, U. and Corti, C. and P\"{a}ckert, M.},
  title = {Mitochondrial DNA sequences suggest unexpected phylogenetic position
        of Corso-Sardinian grass snakes (\textit{Natrix cetti}) and do not
        support their species status, with notes on phylogeography and subspecies
        delineation of grass snakes},
  journal = {Organisms Diversity \& Evolution},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {12},
  pages = {71-80},
  doi = {10.1007/s13127-011-0069-8}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sorting=nyt,maxbibnames=20,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{lit.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

[boronian]

Dear meho_r,

thanks a lot,
I never saw the necessity to proceed from bibtex to biber, it was not so hard in the end !

The details are not so important (but would be nice to know if someone got the knowledge...!?), as long as it works.

best regards!