I have to use the bst file provided by the university for my work which is an edited IEEEtranSN.bst. Unfortunately, the generated order of ambiguous entries (by attaching a letter) does not match the actual naming, i.e., I expect [author, 2010a] to appear before [author, 2010b] in the bibliography.
This is probably a problem in the sorting defined in the bst file. I would prefer changing the .bst instead of manually changing the bib entries since the real bibliography I am using is quite long.
Minimal code example, adopted from a related question using the separately uploaded bst file:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, openright, twoside]{book}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@inproceedings{landgren2016distributed,
title={{\noopsort{A}{On}} distributed cooperative decision-making in multiarmed bandits},
author={Landgren, Peter and Srivastava, Vaibhav and Leonard, Naomi Ehrich},
booktitle={Control Conference (ECC), 2016 European},
pages={243--248},
year={2016},
month=may,
organization={IEEE}
}
@inproceedings{landgren2016bdistributed,
title={{\noopsort{B}{Distributed}} cooperative decision-making in multiarmed bandits: Frequentist and Bayesian algorithms},
author={Landgren, Peter and Srivastava, Vaibhav and Leonard, Naomi Ehrich},
booktitle={Decision and Control (CDC), 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on},
pages={167--172},
year={2016},
month=sep,
organization={IEEE}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{document}
\nocite{landgren2016distributed}
\nocite{landgren2016bdistributed}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranSN_edited}
% \bibliography{./biliography.bib}
\end{document}
Here, I expected the order to be equivalent to the label order, listing the extended cites [author, 2016a] before [author, 2016b] first.
Do you have an idea what specific changes are needed in the bst to achieve this?
Thanks in advance!
