How can I do multiple citations with page numbers using bibLaTeX/biber?
I have tried \cite[2,3,4]{ref1,ref2,ref3,ref4} but it doesn't work.
[Tex/LaTex] Multiple citations with pages using BibLaTeX
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Edited (2018-07-14) by moewe for
biblatex>= v3.8. See the edit history for olderbiblatexversions.
The multicite commands take arbitrarily many arguments. They aren't designed to output a sorted citation list. It is possible to construct a two-pass version of \cites that will generate a sorted, qualified citation list.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authortitle,sorting=ynt,sortcites]{biblatex}
\makeatletter
% original definition of \cites
\DeclareMultiCiteCommand{\cbx@cites}{\cite}{\multicitedelim}
% new definition
\DeclareMultiCiteCommand{\cites}[\cbx@cite@wrapper\cbx@cites]{\cbx@cite}{}
% first pass saves keys, prenotes, postnotes
\DeclareCiteCommand{\cbx@cite}
{\csxdef{prenote:\thefield{entrykey}}{\thefield{prenote}}}
{\listxadd\cbx@savekeys{\thefield{entrykey}}}
{}
{\csxdef{postnote:\thefield{entrykey}}{\thefield{postnote}}}
% second pass outputs sorted citation list
\newrobustcmd{\cbx@cite@wrapper}[2]{%
\def\cbx@savekeys{}%
\def\cbx@citecall{#1}%
#2\cbx@sortkeysinit\cbx@citesort\cbx@citecall}
% internal list of saved keys => sorted argument list
\def\cbx@citesort{%
\def\do##1{%
\ifinlist{##1}{\cbx@savekeys}
{\protected@xappto\cbx@citecall{%
[\csuse{prenote:##1}][\csuse{postnote:##1}]{##1}}}
{}}%
\dolistloop{\cbx@sortkeys}}
% internal list of sorted entry keys
\def\cbx@sortkeysinit{%
\ifcsundef{blx@dlist@entry@\the\c@refsection @\blx@refcontext@context}
{}
{\global\csletcs{cbx@sortkeys}{blx@dlist@entry@\the\c@refsection @\blx@refcontext@context}}}
\def\cbx@sortkeys{}
\makeatother
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\newcommand{\cmd}[1]{\texttt{\textbackslash #1}}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{document}
\cmd{cite}: \cite{companion,ctan,vangennep,markey} \\
\cmd{cites}: \cites[e.g.][10]{companion}{ctan}{markey}[10--11]{vangennep} \\
\cmd{Cites}: \Cites{ctan}{markey}[e.g.][5--10]{companion}[10--11]{vangennep}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Note that this new version of \cites does not properly support multiprenote and multipostnote arguments of the form
\cites(<pre>)(<post>)...
A tidy resolution will probably warrant extension of biblatex internals. This is something we should consider as \textcites in the verbose styles suffers from the same limitation.
Best Answer
You can use the multicite version of
\cite:This will roughly give the following output:
In general
\citestakes arguments of the formwhere the first two arguments
(<multipre>)(<multipost>)serve as an "overall" pre- and post-notes and the remaining arguments can be repeated as necessary. Citations are printed in the order given with compressed citation labels depending on the style.For further details refer to material on "qualified citation lists" in the biblatex manual.