fix order of citations

Question

The order of my citations in my original document text is messed up. For example, my text is like this:

Hello World is the best program \cite{helloWorld} and I use Latex \cite{latex}.....
....this is a new feature \cite{new}

while the citations are like this:

Hello World is the best program [11] and I use Latex [8].....
....this is a new feature [1]

and then in the .bib file I have some citations:

@article{speech,
    author    = "name",
    title     = "Title",
    pages = "13",
}

The citation where it shows [1] in the document is the one that I typed into my .bib file before typing anything else. However, now I have fixed the order of all citations in my bib file and arranged them in the order of how they should appear in the text. But still, they aren't appearing from number 1 in the beginning. How can i fix this? I have already tried recompling overleaf many times.

\usepackage[style=numeric,language=english, maxbibnames=99, giveninits=true]{biblatex}
...
\addbibresource{sample.bib}
...
  %\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
  %\bibliography{sample}
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

Get rid of \bibliographystyle and add the option sorting=none to biblatex — DG', Nov 19 '20 at 22:19
As DG' says and I mentioned under your other recent question you should not use \bibliographystyle when you load biblatex. The command will not work as expected (i.e. as with BIbTeX) and will throw an error instead. You also cannot use \bibliography in the document body when you use biblatex. — moewe, Nov 20 '20 at 07:25
I have already tried removing \bibliographystyle and adding sorting=none as suggested in the link above but it doesn't fix the problem. @moewe — x89, Nov 20 '20 at 09:37
@x89 - As always: Please make a minimal working example with bibliography (MWEB) that shows the issue at hand. Code fragments are not helpful! — DG', Nov 20 '20 at 09:39
Then please update your question with a small example document that shows what you are doing at the moment. — moewe, Nov 20 '20 at 12:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '20 at 22:22

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You need to set the option sorting to none:

\usepackage[style=numeric, sorting=none]{biblatex}

answered Nov 19 '20 at 22:22

DG'

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That doesn't seem to work – x89 Nov 19 '20 at 22:23
Delete all .aux files – DG' Nov 19 '20 at 22:29
I'm using overleaf and there are no aux files. I also tried removing the unused bib but it doesnt work either. Also tried copy pasting everything to a new project folder and files but still the same issue – x89 Nov 19 '20 at 22:30

fix order of citations

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