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I would like to clean up BibTeX entries so that fields always appear in the same order.

For example, I would like the order of fields to always be: author, year, title, journal. So, pressing C-c C-q on:

@Article{Smit90,
  title = {The Title},
  year = 1990,    
  author = {Smith, J.},
  journal = {The Journal}
}

Should produce:

@Article{Smit90,
  author = {Smith, J.},
  year = 1990,    
  title = {The Title},
  journal = {The Journal}

}

bibtex-mode has many options to reformat and clean up fields (see http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html#0620), but does not seem to have a way to reorder fields. Ideally, the order of fields should be controlled from bibtex-entry-format and follow the order of fields that is defined in bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist.

How could this be done?

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  • I think you meant C-c C-c (bibtex-clean-entry) and not C-c C-q (bibtex-fill-entry). – jagrg Feb 9 at 13:06
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You have to add sort-fields to bibtex-entry-format.

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  • Interesting. I didn't know about that option (it wasn't in the manual I linked in the question). Thanks! – scaramouche Feb 10 at 2:02

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