Paste your list, one item per line or separated by commas, and get it back in alphabetical order. Words, names, titles or a reference list, A to Z or Z to A.
Paste your list into the field, one item per line. A list on one line works too, separated by commas or semicolons. The result appears in ABC order straight away, from A to Z. Press Sort Z-A for reverse alphabetical order, then copy the list and paste it where you need it.
It works for anything you would otherwise put in order by hand: spelling words in ABC order for homework, a class list, guests for a seating plan, a shopping list, glossary terms or the books on a shelf. Upper and lower case count as the same letter, so apple and Apple end up side by side, and accented letters such as é and ü land where a dictionary puts them.
APA, Harvard, MLA and Chicago all list references in alphabetical order by the first author's surname. In a reference list the surname is the first word of each entry, so pasting your list and keeping Sort by First letter is all it takes. Two works by the same author come out by year, because the numbers are read as numbers.
Tick Ignore The, A and An for entries that start with a title or an organization, such as The World Bank, which APA files under W. A reference copied from a PDF often breaks over several lines; join each one onto a single line first, so it is moved as a whole. The tool sorts your list; it does not change the formatting of your citations.
Choose Sort by Last word to alphabetize names by last name, so Anna Berg comes before John Smith whatever the first names are. Names with the same surname are then sorted by the whole line. Ignore The, A and An puts titles, bands and films where a library or a record shop would file them: The Beatles under B, A Tale of Two Cities under T.
Numbers are sorted as numbers, not as letters, so 2 comes before 10, dates written as 2024-01-15 come out in date order and 3.25 comes before 3.5. Sort by Length puts the shortest items first, which is handy for keyword lists and tags. Everything happens in your browser; your list is not uploaded.
Paste the list with one item on each line, or with commas between the items. It comes back in alphabetical order at once, ready to copy. ABC order and alphabetical order are the same thing: A to Z, letter by letter.
Paste your reference list with each entry on its own line and keep Sort by First letter, which sorts by the first author's surname as APA, Harvard and MLA ask. Tick Ignore The, A and An if some entries start with a title or an organization. If a reference copied from a PDF breaks over several lines, join it onto one line first.
Yes. Tick Ignore The, A and An at the start, and The Beatles is sorted under B and A Tale of Two Cities under T, the way libraries and reference lists do it. A single letter A on its own line stays where it is.
In Word, select the list and choose Sort on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group. Google Docs has no sort button, so copy the list here, put it in order and paste it back.
Yes. Ascending runs A to Z, descending runs Z to A, and the choice applies to numbers in the same way.
Numerically, not as text. Item 2 comes before item 10, dates like 2024-01-15 sort in date order, and numbers with decimals are compared by value, so 3.25 comes before 3.5.
Yes. Letters like a-umlaut and o-slash are placed using your browser's language rules rather than by their underlying character codes, so they land where a dictionary would put them.
They are treated as the same letter, so apple and Apple end up next to each other instead of in two separate blocks. When two items differ only in case, the capitalized one comes first.
Yes. Choose Sort by Last word, and each line is sorted by its final word, which in a list of full names is the surname. Choose Length to sort from the shortest item to the longest.
Yes. The output can be returned separated by line breaks, commas or semicolons, whichever suits where it is going next.
No, every line comes back. Sorting makes the repeats easy to spot; Remove Duplicate Lines takes them out.