Hello,
I need to make a list of all publications of an author in DATE PUBLISHED order.
Actually in the browser, I can order folder citations in different orders, but when I copy them to clipboard, I always have authors order.
I don’t know if this is a BUG or a FEATURE REQUEST, but you understand it would be very annoing to order the list of 150 citations by hand (this is a classical task for computer!)
Thanks for your message! The order of your reference list depends on the citation style you’ve selected.
If you’d like your references to appear in date-published order, try switching to a numerical citation style such as Vancouver. In those styles, citations are numbered in the order they appear in your document, which means the reference list will follow your chosen sorting — including by publication date.
So if you sort your folder or list by date published first, then copy citations in a style like Vancouver, your bibliography should reflect that order.
Thank you for your answer, but thi is not the point.
This is not the bibliography of the cited articles. And I can’t use a different citation stile in my text.
This should be the list of all the publications of an author. I want to grab them from the paperpile page with the “copy citations to clipboard” button, wher I can chose the order criteria, as I need. BUT the command always gives the list in alphabetical order, no matter the visualization order selected, that is what is expected for.
I mean, one time I load references in the paperpile DB, I should be able to grab them in any order and any format I chose.
As I said it seems a bug, because the beahviour of that button is expected to be exactly the one I am asking for.
I wait for your help,
Thanks
Thanks for clarifying @marcelo. This isn’t a bug.
The “Copy citation” button is currently working as designed: it formats and orders references according to the rules of the selected citation style, rather than the order you’ve chosen in the Paperpile interface. That’s why the list appears alphabetically, even if you’ve sorted by date or another criterion in your library view.
For example, if you’ve selected a citation style like APA, the citations appear in alphabetical order because that is the rules of that citation style, whereas if you’ve selected a numerical citation style like Vancouver, the citations appear in the order you have selected in the Paperpile interface, because Vancouver arranges the reference list based on the order in which they appear in the text.
It sounds like you’re trying to generate a custom publication list (e.g., all works by one author, sorted by date), which isn’t what the copy citation button was originally built for — but your use case makes perfect sense. I’ll share your feedback with the team as a feature request to allow users to export or copy citations according to the order shown in the interface, independent of citation style.
If you meant something else or are seeing different behavior than described, feel free to share a quick example or screenshot so we can make sure we understand exactly what’s happening.