Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ How to make the bibliography in order

[sannemadsen]

Hello! I Am having a problem. I am using writelatex to make a report in. But when I cite a reference, it is not showing the proper number. I have around 20 references, and I want the first in my .bib file to be number 1, such that if I \cite{refnumber1} it will show [1] in the preview. The problem now is that it is showing [15] for the one that is the first in the .bib file. I have tried to remove each reference from the .bib file, and put them in one by one in the order I am refering to in my report. But it still doesn't work. Does anyone know how to solve this?

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

i think your bibliography is sorted on the order of appearance in your document, not the bib.

You can change that, but you have to tell us yor basic setting, best in form of a minimal working example so we can test solutions.

[sannemadsen]

I have looked through the link you sent me, but I am not completely sure how to send such a package. I can give you the informations though. These are the commands I use for the main document.

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\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{article}
\usepackage[margin=75pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}%in footer: \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage} 
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}%hyphenation is not allowed
\usepackage[hyphens]{url} %url force linebreak
\usepackage{titlesec}%fancy sections mm.
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}% 8-bit bytes to represent alphabet
\usepackage{float}%floating figures and tables
\usepackage{pbox}%adjusts its width to enclosed text
\usepackage{longtable}%allows tables to continue to the next page
\usepackage{capt-of}%putting a caption to something that's not a float
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}%best place for pageskip and minimum space at the end of the last line of a paragraph.
\usepackage{array}%extends the options for column formats
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\rfoot{Page \thepage \hspace{1pt} of \pageref{LastPage}}
\newcolumntype{P}[1]{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{#1}}
\graphicspath{ {./images/} }
\begin{document}
\sffamily

(whole document)

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{bibliography.bib}

Remember that this is in writelatex. I don't know if there is something special about it. And my .bib file is just references, I don't have any of the "start bibliography" or any other commands in that file. It just starts and ends like this:

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@article{Chandra20121462,
  title={something},
  author={Al Seadi, Teodorita},
  year={2008}
}

@book{al2008biogas,
  title={Biogas handbook},
  author={Al Seadi, Teodorita},
  year={2008}
}

And in my document, when I write "I like flowers, just like the president \cite{Chandra20121462} and his wife \cite{al2008biogas}" it turns out:
"I like flowers, just like the president [2] and his wife [1]". And when I have more than 2, it is completely random which number it gives.

[Johannes_B]

You can have your bibliography sorted by appearance or by author. But bibtex will always do some sort of sorting, i fear.

You can however make a dummy document, cite in the order you want the itemz to appear in the document and input the generated bbl-file in your main document. In this main document, you have to remove all things connected to the bibliography.

If you have few citations, you can do this by hand, if you have many a short script could be helpful.


May i ask, why want to have a specific order?