atw: Re: References and bibliographies - author-date style

Debbie Hope:

> Hi everyone
> Quick question - and thanks in advance if you can help (and to give you
> all a rest from thinking about accreditation and such matters!).
> 
> If I am listing documents using the author-date (Harvard system) is the
> order that I have used in the example below correct?
> 
> Bloggs Company (2005), Task 5 - Bloggs Manual, version 1.0     etc
> Bloggs Company (2006), Task 5 - Bloggs Guide, version 1.0    etc
> Bloggs Company (2006), Task 5 - Bloggs Manual, version 1.0    etc
> 
> In this example, although the TITLE of the documents are very similar,
> the 2005 Manual is listed first because it was written in 2005?

That is correct. The author-date "tag" in the text is a pointer to the
bibliographic entry in the ref list. So author and date have to be the sort
key for the list.


Michael Lewis

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Brandle Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia
www.brandle.com.au
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