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I want to sort in-text citations by year, but bibliography by name. It sound exactly like this question.

However, suggested solution (using usepackage[sorting=ynt]{biblatex} and printbibliography[sorting=nty]) does not work for me (see MWEB below). Indeed, the list of references remains year-sorted instead of name sorted.

Question: How to force sorting=nty in printbibliography?

documentclass{article}

    usepackage[%

        backend=biber,%

        style=authoryear-comp,%

        natbib=true,%

        sorting=ynt%

    ]{biblatex}

    addbibresource{jobname.bib}

    usepackage{filecontents}



begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib}

    @book{key2000,

      author = {Author, A.},

      year = {2000},

      title = {Alphabetical fist & Year last},

      publisher = {Publisher},

    }

    @book{key1900,

        author = {Boathor, B.},

        year = {1900},

        title = {Alphabetical last & Year first},

        publisher = {Publisher},

}

end{filecontents}



begin{document}

    Citation should be year-sorted, even if verb+citep+ is random citep{key2000, key1900}.% citation NOT year-sorted



    printbibliography[sorting=nyt]

end{document}

P.S.: At the opposite, using

begingroup

    newrefcontext[sorting=nyt]

    printbibliography

endgroup 

overrides the usepackage[sorting=ynt]{biblatex} option (i.e. LoR is name-sorted, but in-line citations as well).

Warning Please note that using different refcontexts to sort citations and bibliographies differently can have very undesirable consequences in some situations. See the example below.

Use

assignrefcontextentries{*}

with

usepackage[%

    backend=biber,%

    style=authoryear-comp,%

    natbib=true,%

    sorting=ynt%

]{biblatex}

and then

begin{document}

Citation should be year-sorted, even if verb+citep+ is random citep{key2000, key1900}.% citation NOT year-sorted

begin{refcontext}[sorting=nyt]

printbibliography

end{refcontext}

end{document}

Some more explanation since this comes up more often.

biblatex does not allow the sorting option for printbibliography any more. It was removed because it could lead to weird sorting results.

Instead, now you use 'refcontexts' to control sorting. A refcontext controls sorting, labelprefix and sortingnamekeytemplate and a few other things (possible more in the future).

An entry can appear in different refcontexts and any extra label data (extraeyar, extraalpha) will be recalculated based on the specific details (e.g. sorting) for each refcontext. This can lead to undesired behaviour as shown in the example below.

If you want to sort your bibliography nyt, you now need

begin{refcontext}[sorting=nyt]

printbibliography

end{refcontext}

Now we only need to get the citations right!
Here a fancy mechanism kicks in. By default entries are assigned to the last refsection of the printbibliography where they were printed. In our case that would lead to all entries being assigned to the nyt context.

If you want to have the ynt context, we need to explicitly ask for that (i.e. override the automatic assignment). This can be done (amongst others) with assignrefcontextentries. With assignrefcontextentries{*} we simply assign all entries to the globally established refcontext, which in our case is ynt sorting.

Note that using different refcontexts (especially sortings) can lead to the same entry having different extrayear labels in citations and bibliography. This can really mess up your bibliography. Even though the chances are fairly slim that something like this happens in your current set-up, it might, and so I would advise against using different refcontext in this way.

Here is an admittedly contrived example that shows this behaviour with your set-up. It can be much easier to achieve such an effect with other pairings of sort schemes. The trick here was that nyt considers the volume for sorting while ynt does not.

documentclass{article}

usepackage[style=authoryear,sorting=ynt]{biblatex}



usepackage{filecontents}

begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib}

@book{one,

  author = {Elk, Anne},

  title  = {Title},

  volume = {1},

  note   = {sorts first in ynt},

}

@book{two,

  author = {Elk, Anne},

  title  = {Title},

  note   = {sorts first in nyt},

}

end{filecontents}



addbibresource{jobname.bib}



begin{document}

nocite{*}

printbibliography[title={refname{} (global sorting texttt{ynt})}]

newrefcontext[sorting=nyt]

nocite{*}

printbibliography[title={refname{} (sorting texttt{nyt})}]

end{document

A 'quick and dirty' solution (less good than moewe's one) is use biblatex's sortcites=false option, to enable the manual sorting of in-line citations.

documentclass{article}

    usepackage[%

        backend=biber,%

        style=authoryear-comp,%

        natbib=true,%

        sorting=nyt,%

        sortcites=false,

    ]{biblatex}

    addbibresource{jobname.bib}

    usepackage{filecontents}



begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib}

    @book{A2000,

      author = {Author, A.},

      year = {2000},

      title = {Alphabetical fist & Year last},

      publisher = {Publisher},

    }

    @book{B1900,

        author = {Boathor, B.},

        year = {1900},

        title = {Alphabetical last & Year first},

        publisher = {Publisher},

    }



    @book{C1950,

        author = {Coathor, C.},

        year = {1950},

        title = {Alphabetical last & Year first},

        publisher = {Publisher},   

    } 

}

end{filecontents}



begin{document}

    In-line citations should be manually sorted in the desired order, and the References list will be alphabetically sorted.



    Example: 

    begin{itemize}

        item This citation is manually year-sorted citep{B1900, C1950, A2000},

        item this one is manually shuffled citep{C1950, B1900, A2000}.

    end{itemize}



    printbibliography

end{document}