Cfrgtkky

I am writing a paper to a Springer journal and I am trying to use their bibliographystyle{spbasic}. I want to sort citation by appearance, hence the first citation in the article should be cited with [1] and second with [2] and so on. But citation is sort by the reference's alphabetically order.

documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}

begin{document}

usepackage[sort&compress,numbers]{natbib}

.............. cite{S1} .......... cite{S2}

bibliographystyle{spbasic} 

bibliography{sssat.bib}   % name your BibTeX data base



end{document}

You need to create and use a modified version of the spbasic bibliography style.

• Find the file spbasic.bst on your computer. Create a copy of this file and call the copy, say, spbasic_unsort.bst.




• Open the file spbasic_unsort.bst in a text editor.




• Find the two lines that start with SORT (note: uppercase is important), and comment out -- or simply delete -- both of these lines.




• Save the file spbasic_unsort.bst either in the directory that contains your main tex file or in a directory that's searched by your tex distribution. If you choose the latter method, be sure to also update the filename database of your TeX distribution.




• In your main tex file, change the instruction bibliographystyle{spbasic} to bibliographystyle{spbasic_unsort}. Then, rerun LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more to fully propagate all changes.

Happy BibTeXing!