Fixing Citation Order Issues with ACM-Reference-Format in Overleaf
When using the ACM-Reference-Format bibliography style with ACM sigconf templates on Overleaf, the reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. Consequently, numeric citations in the body may appear out of sequence relative to the bibliography:
Recent studies [3, 1, 4] indicate...
Switching to an unsorted style restores the sequence but ...
Posted on Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:16:04 +0000 by bobob