Hello, I am using Mendeley as my reference manager.
I currently have a merged in-text citation:
(Atterbury et al., 2007; Ramesh et al., 1999; Smith & Huggins, 2009)
I want it to be chronological instead of alphabetical:
(Ramesh et al., 1999; Atterbury et al., 2007; Smith & Huggins, 2009)
How can you modify the style in Mendeley to allow this?
Thanks
Hi Jade Davies
First, as you probably know the sorting order in the "in-text citation" and the "bibliography" is determined by the style you are using. So you probably shouldn't modify this behavior, if you are required to use a certain style. If this isn't the case, you probably should use a style that uses chronological ordering by default such as Harvard 10th edition.
And here is an answer to the question at last.
In the CSL editor (https://csl.mendeley.com) search the style you want to modify and click "Edit". On the left hand side INLINE CITATIONS > Sort, remove all the sorting macros by clicking the '-' sign. The Add a new sorting macro by clicking the '+' sign. Finally, in the right hand side change the Type to "macro" and the "macro" to issued. Save the stile and use it in your Mendeley Desktop.
It should look something like this.
Hi Jade Davies
First, as you probably know the sorting order in the "in-text citation" and the "bibliography" is determined by the style you are using. So you probably shouldn't modify this behavior, if you are required to use a certain style. If this isn't the case, you probably should use a style that uses chronological ordering by default such as Harvard 10th edition.
And here is an answer to the question at last.
In the CSL editor (https://csl.mendeley.com) search the style you want to modify and click "Edit". On the left hand side INLINE CITATIONS > Sort, remove all the sorting macros by clicking the '-' sign. The Add a new sorting macro by clicking the '+' sign. Finally, in the right hand side change the Type to "macro" and the "macro" to issued. Save the stile and use it in your Mendeley Desktop.
It should look something like this.
Please Mahmoud Ahmed , may it be possible to have a screenshot as you did for order, of inline citation modifications, so that we could display the "et al"?
I tried once but I only found "..." instead of "et al.".
Kind regards,
Evans, E.
Evans Ehouman, I am not sure what are you trying to do with "et al". In general, the inline citation can be modified using the "Global Formatting Options". If you give an example of what you want the final behavior to be, I might be able to help.
Mahmoud Ahmed , I am trying to modify a APA style. By default, the inline citation mode doesn't display et al. for more than 2 second author. I saw the formatingin Global Formating Option. However despite the fact that I change the different option for et-al min I still do not see the et al. I have finally decided to use : http://www.zotero.org/styles/ceska-zemedelska-univerzita-v-praze-fakulta-agrobiologie-potravinovych-a-prirodnich-zdroju. Thank you
Hi guys, I have one question regarding the order of references with same author and same year in one citation using the Harvard style. The references are given 'a' and 'b' labels to discriminate beween them, yet it usually happens that 'b' comes before 'a' in the inline citation, eventhough they are in the right order ('a' comes before 'b') in the bibliography.
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