[SalesForce] Disable Inline Editing for fields in the list view in lightning

The Mass Update And Mass Edit From List View app should be able to get you where you want to be.

It is correct that you will want a number field on the PaperAuthor object in order for you to have a field to sort the records.

The one-to-many model which the tool's examples describe will work in this scenario. The 'one' in this case is the Paper and the 'many' is the PaperAuthor, the Author object is really irrelevant to the problem which you're solving for.

You might consider putting a few formula fields on the PaperAuthor object to retrieve any relevant information from the Author record to display within the related list. This could help your users better know which Authors they are dealing with in the list.

Well, I've just tried the following code on my org with a newest Chrome and Firefox version and it reloads the entire page after save:

<apex:page standardController="Opportunity">

    <apex:detail subject="{!Opportunity.Id}" 
                 rendered="{!Opportunity.Id != null}" 
                 relatedList="True" 
                 showChatter="True" 
                 inlineEdit="true"
                 oncomplete="location.reload()"/>

</apex:page>