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Using biblatex with bibtex, I would like to order my references in the bibliography by author name.

This works fine:

\usepackage[backend=bibtex, sorting = nyt, %name, year, title]{biblatex}

However this behaviour also applies to citations in the text, when quoting several authors. for instance:

\parencite{Wang_1976, Albert_2011}

gives

(Albert et al. 2011, Wang et al. 1976)

Where I would like the citation to appear in chronological order. Changing sorting to ynt, solves this issue, but disrupts the ordering in the bibliography instead. I can't get my head around it...

Obs: I use sharelatex.

snake_charmer
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    Please see Biblatex order of entries in a multi-citation. – moewe Jun 11 '15 at 16:02
  • In case that helped you a short heads up would be nice. If the solution did not help, please explain why. If nothing happens here in due time the question will probably be closed as a duplicate. – moewe Jun 13 '15 at 05:36
  • @moewe, the link you posted seemed highly relevant, that is why I upvoted it. Nevertheless I have not have time to test the proposed solution, this is why I did not answer your comment. Sorry for this! It is not otherwise my habit to leave answers/comment unresponded. – snake_charmer Jun 14 '15 at 11:06
  • I hope I didn't come across as to rude, sorry. The problem with up-voting is that one doesn't know who up-voted, so I wasn't aware you had read the comment and the linked question. – moewe Jun 14 '15 at 16:49
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    @moewe, thanks for the link. I think this is indeed a duplicate, as I am trying to do the same thing as the other OP. Yet, I would not have thought of formulated the problem the way he did, and could not find it despite many searches. The proposed solution did not work for me, probably because I use backend=bibtex and I opted for sorting the citations manually with sortcites=false. Any more elegant solution is much welcome... – snake_charmer Jun 17 '15 at 19:02
  • Now I'm confused. If you have sortcites=false how does any sorting option change the order of citations? If you have sortcites=false that means precisely that biblatex will just print citations in the order you gave them. Why don't you just go with the bibliography order you want. As I really don't understand your problem a full MWE and a precise description what output you expect might help. – moewe Jun 17 '15 at 19:27
  • I am sorry that I have confused you. I meant I sorted the citations "manually" in the order I wanted in each \parencite{} environment. In addition of that I had to turn off sortcites to keep this manual order unchanged. So no, there are no sorting options on the top of that; and yes, problem solved, except that I do not find the solution very elegant. – snake_charmer Jun 17 '15 at 19:38
  • Never mind. Can you explain in more detail how and why the proposed solution did not work for you? Does it work in the MWE in the answer? (Manually sorting is indeed not very elegant, but the solution in the MWE seems nice.) – moewe Jun 17 '15 at 20:12

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