Zitat von Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> But are you sure you don't have more complex rules for periodicals?

In the very rare case that a whole periodical is cited, not an article, the list
entry looks like
  Publisher (Year): PeriodicalTitle ...
and the very same rules apply: First item (publisher ) is first sort key, second
item (year) is second sort key.

Of course there are some specific types of reference lists as in my diploma
thesis, that require a specific treatment, not only concerning the sorting.
One example is something equivalent to a "Further reading" list, where I
visually grouped references to web pages and web (pdf) documents according to
the company they stem from and sorted (within each company) in an arbitrary
thematic order.
But I believe this is (a) too special and (b) impossible to automatise, so I
wouldn't spend much time thinking about it.
The user should simply sort such lists manually.

PS. Speaking about manual sorting I just had an interesting idea:
The user should in this case be able to use drag-and-drop in reference lists. So
if the user thinks two items are in the wrong order, he/she could just drag them
in the correct order
(Like the Windows start menu items, for example.)

Matthias Basler
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