How to order citations in References by appearance, but still have author-year labels appearing in the text (besides numbers)

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Hi Based on previous post How to order citations by appearance using BibTeX? ,
I tried randomly things like bibliographystyle{unsrt}, ..., but I don't numbers in the body of the paper
I also tried using
usepackage[round, comma, sort&compress ]{natbib}

bibliographystyle{amsalpha}
bibliography{...}

However, the first line seemed to do nothing except produce the message Natbib error : Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations
which slowed down things without influencing the outcome.What to do?

Mico · Answer

Since you're using the natbib citation management, I suggest that you (a) load the package with the option authoryear and (b) employ the unsrtnat bibliography style.

That said, I'd like to repeat the concern voiced in @leandriis' comment: Assuming your paper cites more than half a dozen pieces, how on earth are your readers supposed to find the bibliographic entries that correspond to the citation call-outs? If you wish to employ authoryear-style citation call-outs, I really can't see a valid reason for not sorting the entries alphabetically by authors' surnames.
documentclass{article}
begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{mybib.bib}
@misc{a,author="A",title="Aa",year=3001}
@misc{z,author="Z",title="Zz",year=3002}
end{filecontents}

usepackage[round,authoryear]{natbib}
bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}

begin{document}
cite{z}, cite{a}
bibliography{mybib}
end{document}

How to order citations in References by appearance, but still have author-year labels appearing in the text (besides numbers)

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