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In article <1992Feb17.043715.4915@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>, jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons) writes:
|> In <9202130836.AA16772@danpost.uni-c.dk> cb@imsor.dth.dk (The Hobbit) writes:
|> 
|> >The problem
|> >is apparently somewhere in the sorting procedure (in the `theapa.bst' file).
|> >However, I have not been able to locate the bug - if it is one?
|> >The list of references created gives the following result:
|> 
|> >Box, G.E.P. & Cox, D.R. (1964). Some title .....
|> >Box, G.E.P. & Draper, N.R. (1965). ...........
|> >Box, M.J. & Draper, N.R. (1972). ...........
|> >Box, G.E.P. & Hill, W.J. (1974). ...........
|> >Box, G.E.P. & Lucas, H.L. (1959). ...........
|> >Box, M.J., Draper, N.R. & Hunter, W.G. (1972). ...........
|> >Box, G.E.P., Hunter, W.G., McGregor, J.E. & Erjavec, J. (1972). ...........
|> 
|> >Naturally, the "Box, M.J." should be next to one another and not
|> >in the middle of the block with first author "Box, G.E.P" ?
|> 
|> Presumably, the reasoning is that the keys are (Box & Cox 1964), (Box &
|> Draper 1965), (Box & Draper 1972), and so on, and that the bibliography
|> should be sorted by key (so you know where to look) rather than by author.
|> 
|> Presumably this also means that entries by `Box, Alpha and Aardvark, 1999'
|> and `Box, Zip and Zephyr, 1999' should come together, both having the key
|> (Box et al 1999). Should they go at the beginning of the `Box' entries? The
|> end?  Or in the middle, between `Box & Escargot' and `Box & Eulogy', on
|> account of the `et al'?
|> 
|> Perhaps this is why Oren Patashnik encourages us to use references of the
|> form [17]...
|> 
|> Jeremy
|> 
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|> | Jeremy Gibbons <jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>  CS Dept, Auckland Univ, NZ |
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This problem was also evident in the harvard BibTeX style family BUT has now
been fixed. Updated versions can be obtained by e-mailing me.

PS - a new style for Kluwer Academic Publishers has been added to the family
PPS - updates have been mailed to all who previously requested these styles
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