[Tex/LaTex] Compressing multiple consecutive references while using biblatex with chem-acs style loaded

biblatex

I am currently referencing by using:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=biber,bibstyle=chem-acs,sorting=none,biblabel=brackets,sortcites=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\begin{document}
Somebody told me.\cite{James2003,Allendorf2009,Rowsell2004}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Supposing that the file references.bib contains:

@article{James2003,
author = {James, S. L.},
journal = {Chem. Soc. Rev.},
number = {5},
pages = {276--288},
title = {{Metal-organic frameworks}},
volume = {32},
year = {2003}
}

@article{Rowsell2004,
author = {Rowsell, Jesse L.C. and Yaghi, Omar M.},
journal = {Microporous Mesoporous Mater.},
pages = {3--14},
title = {{Metal-organic frameworks: a new class of porous materials}},
volume = {73},
year = {2004}
}

@article{Allendorf2009,
author = {Allendorf, M. D. and Bauer, C. A. and Bhakta, R. K. and Houk, R. J. T.},
journal = {Chem. Soc. Rev.},
number = {5},
pages = {1330--1352},
title = {{Luminescent metal-organic frameworks.}},
volume = {38},
year = {2009}
}

Running latex -> biber -> latex -> latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf (need this procedure for other reasons) gives:

Somebody told me.[1, 2, 3]

How can I get compressed consecutive references like

Somebody told me.[1-3]

The cite and natbib packages provide compressing but are incompatible with biblatex. biblatex has a numeric-comp style but I need bibliography formatting of chem-acs. The biblatex documentation refers to the sortcites=true option which seems to indeed sort the numbers within the brackets but doesn't provide compressing.

Thanks for your help!

Best Answer

You are using bibstyle=chem-acs, which means that the citation style is unchanged from the biblatex default. You probably want the chem-acs citation style too, which is much easier to do using style=chem-acs:

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{James2003,
author = {James, S. L.},
journal = {Chem. Soc. Rev.},
number = {5},
pages = {276--288},
title = {{Metal-organic frameworks}},
volume = {32},
year = {2003}
}

@article{Rowsell2004,
author = {Rowsell, Jesse L.C. and Yaghi, Omar M.},
journal = {Microporous Mesoporous Mater.},
pages = {3--14},
title = {{Metal-organic frameworks: a new class of porous materials}},
volume = {73},
year = {2004}
}

@article{Allendorf2009,
author = {Allendorf, M. D. and Bauer, C. A. and Bhakta, R. K. and Houk, R. J. T.},
journal = {Chem. Soc. Rev.},
number = {5},
pages = {1330--1352},
title = {{Luminescent metal-organic frameworks.}},
volume = {38},
year = {2009}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=chem-acs,biblabel=brackets]{biblatex}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\begin{document}
Somebody told me.\cite{James2003,Allendorf2009,Rowsell2004}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

This automatically sets sorting=none and sortcites=true as that is standard for chemistry styles.

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