For publications that use Harvard-style (i.e., name–date) citations, eXtyles Reference Sorting can be run after Bibliographic Reference Processing to sort reference lists alphabetically and according to the editorial style recommended by the APA (American Psychological Association), Chicago (Chicago Manual of Style), CSE (Council of Science Editors), Cell Press, and SGM style guides.
For publications that use APA, Chicago, or CSE style guides, Reference Sorting will follow these conventions:
Alternatively, Reference Sorting can be used to reorder reference lists alphabetically and according to the editorial style used by Cell Press and the Society for General Microbiology (SGM). This latter style follows the following rules for ordering references with the same first-author surname:
When ordering references with different first-author surnames, the following alphabetization conventions apply:
On this page Bibliographic Reference Processing and Validation |
Depending on your organization’s configuration, this process may also appear on the Advanced Processing menu as Sort Name-Date References. |
To use Reference Sorting:
Run eXtyles at least up through Bibliographic Processing. Sorting will not work on unprocessed references. We recommend, however, that sorting be run after PubMed/CrossRef Checking, where it appears on the Advanced Processing menu.
The sorting results will be more accurate if all reference author lists are correctly identified by eXtyles. Therefore, we recommend that any problematic unknown or misparsed references be corrected and reprocessed before Reference Sorting is run.
Select eXtyles > Advanced Processing > Reference Sorting. eXtyles will sort your reference list according to one of the two styles described previously, as configured according to your organization’s preference.
If the order of two or more references is ambiguous (for instance, if there are three “Smith J, 2000” references), Reference Sorting will insert a warning. |