How can I sort bibliography by year from most recent to oldest?

[Mathieu]

All is in the title. Based on a web search it seems that CSL allows sorting by year, but not in reversed order. Is there a trick that I could use to tell Typst to reverse the order of items in the bibliography?

[vmartel08]

Hello @Mathieu , have you consulted this post already?

How to Hack Together an Author-Date sorting for Bibliography?

Hello @Paul744, I’m having trouble following your thoughts. I think there is a misconception, you cannot load a style and define a custom sorting, because sorting is defined by the style. For example, by selecting the “alphanumeric” style, you would load the following CSL style hayagriva/styles/alphanumeric.csl at main · typst/hayagriva · GitHub (if I’m not wrong) which defines sorting as <sort> <key variable="author" /> <key variable="issued" /> </sort> The CSL spec can …

A few pointers, including open issues, workarounds and explanations.

@quachpas

tl;dr: best hack is to define your own sorting in the CSL file. You can use the fantastic visualEditor here! (or mash together different styles).