# LO citation : sorting bibliography

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/lo-citation-sorting-bibliography/3773>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 28, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/lo-citation-sorting-bibliography/3773 "2023-03-28T02:31:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![melTr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/meltr/32/277_2.png) [@melTr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/melTr)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/lo-citation-sorting-bibliography/3773/1 "2023-03-28T02:31:20Z")

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Hi  
I’m wondering if someone could help me to find out what is the parameter used to sort bibliography.

I use this style, with based on position=true. But since I cite a lot of similar items (year and1st author) at the same time, I search what the third parameter is used to sort them in the bibliography. For now, my biblio is a little bit disorganized. It doesn’t seem to be related to the original order of the bib file. It’s not either by date. It looks to be by all others authors combination, is it possible? It doesn’t make sense to me, I will rather prefer by date. Does someone know if it could be changed?

If someone is interested in helping me, I could privately share my files.  
Thanks  
Mel

```auto

PROPERTIES
Title="Publications"
**IsSortByPosition="true"**
 **IsNumberEntries="false"**
ReferenceParagraphFormat="List"
ReferenceHeaderParagraphFormat="Heading 2"

CITATION
MaxAuthors=1
MaxAuthorsFirst=1
AuthorSeparator=" & "
AuthorLastSeparator=" & "
EtAlString=" et al."
CitationSeparator=", "
**MultiCiteChronological=true**
BracketBefore="("
BracketAfter=")"
BracketBeforeInList=""
BracketAfterInList=". "
MinimumGroupingCount=1
CitationCharacterFormat="Standard"
FormatCitations=true
GroupedNumbersSeparator="-"
UniquefierSeparator=","
InTextYearSeparator=" "
YearSeparator=" "

```

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/lo-citation-sorting-bibliography/3773/2 "2023-03-29T20:59:31Z")

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Hi,  
according to the docs [OpenOffice/LibreOffice integration - JabRef](https://docs.jabref.org/cite/openofficeintegration)

```auto
IsSortByPosition ´

```

would be the either by occurrence or by alphabet. Does this help?

 ![grafik](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jabref/original/2X/5/5e55bb2d4b533356b075ccd0c24bffd1ccb6a564.png)

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**Author:** ![melTr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/meltr/32/277_2.png) [@melTr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/melTr)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/lo-citation-sorting-bibliography/3773/3 "2023-04-12T03:04:07Z")

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Hi,  
Thanks. Not really, it should have something else. I’m still searching how the citations are ordered by position if cite many of them in a block. In JabRef, I sort by date. However, I still don’t understand how it is sorted.  
I selected all the entries simultaneously. See pictures to illustrate if my writing is not clear.  
Thanks.

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