[texhax] Bibtex, ordering of bibliography items.

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> I have two papers by the same author, both dated 1971.
> 
> The later paper (which cites the first) gets listed *before* 
> the earlier paper in the bibliography, since its title comes 
> before the title of the earlier paper in an alphabetical ordering.
> 
> I would like to get the earlier paper listed first.  Is there 
> any simple way to achieve this?  I am using vanilla bibtex 
> and \bibliographystyle{plain}.

Here's an example of what to put in your bib file:

@PREAMBLE{ {\providecommand{\noopsort}[1]{}} }
...
@ARTICLE{Rayleigh1,
AUTHOR = "{\noopsort{Rayleigh}}{Lord Rayleigh}",
...
}

N.B. this is easily fond using "bibtex sorting" e.g. in google an is an FAQ.

Phil