Reference order

[nhavt]

Hello edgaras-sakuras,

I have a question regarding references sorted according to authors and years. I think there might be a bug in a sort algorithm for references, see my sample LaTeX code below. Could you please have a look at this? Thanks in advance!

``\documentclass[aos]{imsart} \RequirePackage[numbers]{natbib} \RequirePackage{url} \begin{document} \begin{frontmatter} \title{Reference order} \end{frontmatter}

The correct order for references should be:\

\string\citet: \citet{Bailey2004}\par \string\citet: \citet{Bailey2008}\par \string\citet: \citet{Bailey2020}\par \string\citet: \citet{Bailey1997}\par \string\citet: \citet{BaileyRF2019}\par \string\citet: \citet{Smith2015}\par \string\citet: \citet{Smith2006}\par \bibliographystyle{imsart-nameyear} \bibliography{sample} \end{document}``

``@Book{Bailey2004, title={Association {S}chemes: Designed {E}xperiments, {A}lgebra and {C}ombinatorics}, author={Bailey, Rosemary A}, series ={Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 84}, year={2004},
publisher={Cambridge University Press, Cambridge} } @Book{Bailey2008, author = {Bailey, Rosemary A}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press, Cambridge}, title = {Design of Comparative Experiments}, year = {2008} } @Article{Smith2015, author = {Smith, Alison B and Butler, David G and Cavanagh, Colin R and Cullis, Brian R}, journal = {The Journal of Agricultural Science}, title = {Multi-phase variety trials using both composite and individual replicate samples: {A} model-based design approach}, year = {2015}, pages = {1017--1029}, volume = {153}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, } @Article{Smith2006, title={The design and analysis of multi-phase plant breeding experiments}, author={Smith, A B and Lim, P and Cullis, Brian R}, journal={The {Journal} of {A}gricultural {S}cience}, volume={144}, pages={393--409}, year={2006}, publisher={Cambridge University Press} } @Misc{BaileyRF2019, author = {Bailey, R F}, title = {Distance{R}egular.org},
year = {2019}, note = {\url{http://www.distanceregular.org/}} } @article{Bailey1997, title={Optimal semi-Latin squares with side six and block size two}, author={Bailey, R A and Royle, Gordon}, journal={Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A}, volume={453}, pages={1903--1914}, year={1997}, publisher={The Royal Society} }

@article{Bailey2020, author = {Bailey, Rosemary Anne and Cameron, Peter J and Soicher, L H and Williams, E R}, journal = {Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics}, volume = {25}, title = {Substitutes for the non-existent square lattice designs for 36 varieties}, year = {2020}, pages={487--499}, publisher = {Springer} } ``

[edgaras-sakuras]

Hello,

it's a bit tricky situation, because sorting algorithms of imsart-nameyear bst and imsart-number.bst differ. And the reference order with the later is the one that you want. I've asked our production manager what would happen and he assured that number sorting will be used.

[nhavt]

Hello edgaras-sakuras, thanks for your explanation. But I think there is still a bug in the sorting algorithm of "imsart-nameyear.bst". Because this sorting algorithm will sort "authors" followed by "years", I suppose? What about the sorting rule in "imsart-number"? Is it also based also "an author" and "a year"?

[edgaras-sakuras]

Ok, lets list sorting strings in both cases. nameyear:

bailey      2004
bailey      2008
smith  zzz       2015
smith  lim  2006  cullis      2006
bailey      2019
bailey  royle  1997      1997
bailey  zzz       2020

[edgaras-sakuras]

number:

bailey r a       2004
bailey r a       2008
smith a b   butler d g   cavanagh c r   cullis b r       2015
smith a b   lim p   cullis b r       2006
bailey r f       2019
bailey r a   royle g       1997
bailey r a   cameron p j   soicher l h   williams e r       2020

[edgaras-sakuras]

And these rules (years ago) were given by (or agreed with) journal editor. It may look strange because your usage of referencing is interesting: citation type is number with elements (and sorting) from nameyear. I don't know if journal style will let it. But one can not be ever sure till the article is published 😃