Reverse chronological sorting with BibTeX

2015-03-24

If you’d like to list your references sorted in reverse chronological order do the following:

• Download this bibliography style file and save it in the same directory as your TeX file (or in ~/texmf/bibtex/bst)

• Include your bibliography as follows:

  \bibliographystyle{habbrvyr}
  \bibliography{refs}
  

This is most commonly used in CV’s. If that’s what you’re using it for, here are a few other things you might want to do.

Sorting chronologically

Edit habbrvyr.bst and replace ever occurrence of REVERSE with ITERATE. (See this thread on StackExchange.

Using different styles.

I looked at the differences between the plain.bst and plainyr.bst (which should both be in your standard BibTeX installation), and then adapted the arXiv’s habbrv.bst. A similar trick should work for your your favourite style file.

Changing the section title.

The references show up in a section called “References”. To change the section title, use

\renewcommand{\refname}{Selected Publications}

🗫 Comments

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  THE BEST!

  Tim (2018-04-23 06:14:33 EDT)

  This bibstyle just saved my ~8 hours of work! Many thanks!

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  Location: where to save

  Ankit (2019-02-25 22:07:07 EST)

  Just put the .bst file in the folder where .tex file is located.

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  How do we change the style of bibliography while maintaining the reverse chronological order?

  Nilah Nair (2021-12-15 10:04:25 EST)

  I would like to use an author, year style like that of agsm. but i want the bibliogrpahy to be sorted in reverse chronological order. Would that be possible? Could you please guide me as to where is the change required?

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