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I am new to LaTeX and am trying to sort my references alphabetically. As I mentioned in the title I want to sort the references, but not the order of the authors.

Here is the bibliography style that I have tried: 

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}

But none of these styles works for me, it sorts the authors as it's shown in the figure below. I want to keep the order that I have set.

Author's names are sorted alphabetically

Here is more explanation:

We assume that we have three references with three authors in each reference.

  • Ref1's authors [ G, F and A ]
  • Ref2's authors [ A, Z and E ]
  • Ref3's authors [ C, B and F ]

I want a result like this:

  • Reference 2 [ A, Z and E ]
  • Reference 3 [ C, B and F ]
  • Reference 1 [ G, F and A ]

Note that I don't use any file of bibliography, I just use:

\bibliography{bibli/my_refs} : to refer the location of my references.
\bibliographystyle{plain} : to specify the style of the bibliography.
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Ishak Hari
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    The input author = {I. Harichane, S.A. Makhlouf, G. Belalem}, is wrong. Multiple names must be separated with and regardless of the desired output in the bibliography. The correct input would be author = {I. Harichane and S.A. Makhlouf and G. Belalem},. See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36396/35864. I know of no BibTeX style that would ever try to sort the names within a field (such as author). But plain should sort your references alphabetically by author names. unsrt will sort them by citation order. (I didn't check what ieeetr does.) – moewe May 31 '20 at 23:28
  • Thats true, when I substitute , by and it kept the desired custom order of the authors, thank you. But I still can't find the way to sort the references ( Vertically ) alphabetically... – Ishak Hari Jun 01 '20 at 12:46
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    As I said plain should sort references alphabetically by authors. If that does not work for you, you need to show us a full example document that reproduces what you are seeing with as little code as possible (a so-called MWE: https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/35864). (We also need a few example .bib entries. They and the rest of the code should be posted as copyable code, not as images.) – moewe Jun 01 '20 at 12:49

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