\
cite{fred,joe,harry,min}
, its default commands could give
something like “[2,6,4,3]”;
this looks awful. One can of course get the things in order by
rearranging the keys in the \
cite
command, but who wants to do
that sort of thing for no more improvement than “[2,3,4,6]”?
The cite package sorts the numbers and detects consecutive
sequences, so creating “[2–4,6]”. The natbib package,
with the numbers
and sort&compress
options, will
do the same when working with its own numeric bibliography styles
(plainnat.bst and unsrtnat.bst).
The package biblatex has a built-in style
numeric-comp for its bibliographies.
This answer last edited: 2012-02-10
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