[Tex/LaTex] BibTeX not in appearance order

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I have a .bib file. I am citing the references in the .bib file. However, the automatic numbering does not follow the same order as their appearance order. I have something like

My first reference is popping up very soon [1]. My second reference is
supposed to be 2, but it is 3 [3].

I am using the IEEE conference paper template, i.e.,

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

and I am not using any citation package.

My reference section looks like

{\footnotesize
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{paper}}

How can I fix it?

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From the IEEEtran documentation (pg 15):

C. Bibliographies

Bibliographies are most easily (and correctly) generated using the IEEEtran BIBTEX package which is easily invoked via
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{IEEEabrv,mybibfile}
See the IEEEtran BIBTEX package documentation (Section III.) for more information.

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[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX/BibTex not arranging citations by order of appearance

This problem crops up all the time when you have citations in your captions, or probably less commonly in document division titles. By default, LaTeX uses the citations in the List of Figures, List of Tables, or Table of Contents as the "first" citation, since it occurs before the main body text.

Options to fix this include:

Adding the notoccite package to your preamble.
The \ignorecitefornumbering command as shown in Get BibTeX to ignore citation numbering in a figure caption does largely the same thing as notoccite.
Modifying the offending captions to have the form \caption[Caption without citation that appears in the List of Figures or Tables]{Caption with citation that appears with the figure or table itself}

If it were up to me, I'd go with option 1. Some editors or thesis committees may be happier with option 2. Example of option 1 (including natbib for \citeauthor command) follows:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{notoccite}
% If you have \cite commands in \section-like commands, or in \caption, the
% citation will also appear in the table of contents, or list of whatever.
% If you are also using an unsrt-like bibliography style, these citations
% will come at the very start of the bibliography, which is confusing. This
% package suppresses the effect.

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{foo,
 author = {Foo},
 title = {Title of Foo},
}
@misc{bar,
 author = {Bar},
 title = {Title of Bar},
}
@misc{baz,
 author = {Baz},
 title = {Title of Baz},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
\listoffigures

%\chapter{Introduction}
\section{The Beginning}
Here we cite \citeauthor{foo} \cite{foo}.
Now we cite \citeauthor{bar} \cite{bar}.
Finally, we cite \citeauthor{baz} \cite{baz}.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\framebox[0.5\textwidth]{Here's a figure.}
\caption{Figure from \cite{bar}, which should most definitely \textbf{not}
         be numbered [1] in the LoF}
\end{figure}
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] How to change a .bst for references sorted in order of appearance

The zip file has only splncs03.bst which uses alphabetical order. However, Springer also provides splncs.bst that uses order of appearance. You can download it at

ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/splncs.bst

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