BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ changing the sort order of the bibliography

[vmcb]

Hi there

I would like to generate a list of references sorted by year, in descending order, i.e. recent references should appear at the top of the list while older references should appear towards the bottom.

I am making the references with the commands

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\bibliographystyle{astron}
\bibliography{publications2}

Changing this line near the top of astron.bst (attached):

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{ label extra.label sort.label }

to

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{ label extra.label sort.year }

sorts the references by year, but in the order oldest references appear at the top of the list.

Any idea how I can redefine the sort order?

Thanks!

[kaiserkarl13]

It's possible. I don't know how to do it from the existing style file you have off the top of my head, but if you're OK with creating a new one, you can type "latex makebst" and answer all the questions, one of which is:

"ORDERING OF REFERENCES (if non-author/year and non-alph)
(*) Alphabetical by all authors
(c) Citation order (unsorted, like unsrt.bst)
(d) Year ordered and then by authors
(r) Reverse year ordered and then by authors"

You want "reverse year ordered and then by authors."

[cminard]

I've created my own .bst file, and my citations are reverse year ordered and then by authors.

However, what I really want is: Reverse year order and then reverse month order and then by authors. Does anyone know how to do that? Thanks!