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I am using \bibliographystyle{ieeetr} to ensure citations are numbered by their appearance in the paper. With multiple citations however, the numbers can be out or order because of the order they appeared somewhere earlier in the paper:
\cite{paper1, paper2, paper3} ==> [5, 3, 10]
Is there a way to ensure that the numbers appear in order with multiple citations?
I tried the following which seems to work in the MWE. I don't know what will happen in an other document.
\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}
\usepackage[super,sort&compress]{natbib}
\bibpunct{[}{]}{,}{s}{}{}
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@incollection{Baauw2001,
Address = {Somerville, MA},
Author = {Sergio Baauw},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development},
Editor = {A. H.-J. Do and L. Dom{\'\i}nguez and A. Johansen},
Pages = {82-93},
Publisher = {Cascadilla Press},
Title = {Expletive determiners in child Dutch and Spanish},
Year = {2001}}
@article{barker1998,
Author = {Chris Barker},
Journal = {Natural Language \& Linguistic Theory},
Pages = {679-717},
Title = {Partitives, Double Genitives and Anti-Uniqueness},
Volume = {16},
Year = {1998}}
@book{Berwick1985,
Address = {Cambridge, MA},
Author = {Berwick, Robert C.},
Publisher = {MIT Press},
Title = {Acquisition of syntactic knowledge},
Year = {1985}}
@phdthesis{Carlson1977,
Author = {Carlson, Gregory N.},
School = {University of Massachusetts, Amherst},
Title = {Reference to Kinds in {E}nglish},
Year = {1977}}
\end{filecontents}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\NAT@sort@cites[1]{%
\let\NAT@cite@list\@empty
\@for\@citeb:=#1\do{\expandafter\NAT@star@cite\@citeb\@@}%
\if@filesw
\expandafter\write\expandafter\@auxout
\expandafter{\expandafter\string\expandafter\citation\expandafter{\NAT@cite@list}}%
\fi
\@ifnum{\NAT@sort>\z@}{%
\expandafter\NAT@sort@cites@\expandafter{\NAT@cite@list}%
}{}%
}%
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\chapter{A chapter}
\lipsum
Some text.\cite{Carlson1977}
\lipsum[3]
\cite{Barker1998,Baauw2001}
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{demo.jpg}
\caption[A figure from]{A figure from \cite{Berwick1985}}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[2]
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
By the way, you should use the more modern biber with biblatex!
The option you are looking for is named sortcites:
\documentclass[]{article}
\begin{filecontents*}{references.bib}
@misc{first,
title={Reference A},
author={Alice},
year={1980},
}
@misc{second,
title={Reference B},
author={Bob},
year={2000},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage[
sortcites,
backend=biber,
hyperref=true,
firstinits=true,
maxbibnames=99,
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\begin{document}
First: \cite{first,second}
Second: \cite{second,first}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Result:
Best Answer
This functionality is provided by the cite package. By default it will also compress lists of citations so [1,2,3] becomes [1-3], however a document stating with
will produce the effect you wish. Sorting can be turned off by using the
[nosort]option.Incidentally, I notice that there are alternative bibliography styles for IEEE Transactions, called
ieeetranswhich include a variantieeetranSthat sorts citations by default. These styles seem to be newer. May be you should consider using those instead.