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How can I put the reference in alphabetical order, not in order of apparition in the text? I'm using

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,openright,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[square,authoryear,sort&compress,semicolon]{natbib}
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    That depends on your \bibliographystyle. unsrt/unsrtnat for example places them in the order of reference, while plainnat I think sorts them alphabetically. – Torbjørn T. Mar 21 '16 at 16:52
  • Please tell us which bibliography style you employ. – Mico Mar 22 '16 at 20:06

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Ordering of the reference should be based on your citation style. When you use numbered referencing, the list should be really in order of apparition (it gets confusing otherwise).

Alphabetically ordered list is used with so called Harvard style of formatting:

...study of generalized Bohm criterion (Baalrud et al., 2015) shows...

Example of this using BibTeX:

\usepackage{natbib}
...
...study of generalized Bohm criterion \cite{Baalrud2015} shows...
...
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{reference}

where reference.bib contains

@article{Baalrud2015,
  author =   {S. D. Baalrud and B. Cheiner and B. Yee and
              M. Hopkins and E. Barnat},
  title =    {Extensions and applications of the Bohm criterion},
  year =     {2015},
  journal =  {Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion},
  volume =   {57},
  pages =    {044003},
  doi =      {10.1088/0741-3335/57/4/044003}
}

In this case, the list of all references will be in alphabetical order.

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