Multiple citations using biblatex, ordering by year using parencite and textcite

Question

The bibliography is arranged in ascending order of names of authors which is fine since the sorting style is nyt. But when I do multiple citations in one parencite{}, the citations are sorted by name. I want to sort it by year as in the oldest one is sorted earliest.

Please suggest if there is any other citestyle to solve above problem?

I am using the following biblatex setting:

\usepackage[style=apa, citestyle=authoryear-comp, uniquelist=false, sorting=nyt, backend=biber, uniquename=false, hyperref=true]{biblatex}

I am using \parencite{xyz2002observations, abc2006observed}. Then the output is

(ABC et al. 2006, XYZ et al. 2002).

But instead I want

(XYZ et al. 2002, ABC et al. 2006)

Answer 1

I found a workaround. You can freely order the authors you cite from by using the command \parencites.

To refer to your example, this would give the desired output:

\parencites{xyz2002observations}{abc2006observed}.

So you have to take care in what order you write the citations here. Latex will not sort these at all.

Answer 2

I worked another way for now. I added another attribute sortcites=false to the above biblatex setting:

\usepackage[style=apa, citestyle=authoryear-comp, uniquelist=false, sorting=nyt, backend=biber, uniquename=false, hyperref=true, sortcites=false]{biblatex}

The only thing now is that I add and order manually items in \parencite command. So now if I write \parencite{xyz2002observations, abc2006observed} it shows -

(XYZ et al. 2002, ABC et al. 2006)