BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Trouble with Ordering of the References

[mmjoglekar]

Hi,

I am facing the following problem while using the article class. Need some help on this.

I am having list of figures, in which, some captions have references. Suppose there are four such citations.

So when I start my actual text (Chapter 1: Introduction), the first reference number is displayed as [5]. This is happening because the first four have been used in the list of figures.

This looks odd.

Is there any remedy to overcome this problem.

Thank you in advance.

Dekar

[localghost]

I don't know what you think about that but in my opinion references should not appear in lists like the LoF. So use the optional argument of the \caption command.

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\caption[Entry for LoF]{Caption with reference \cite{key}}

The reference now will appear only in the caption of your figure, but not in its LoF entry. The problem should not occur anymore. Otherwise provide a minimal working example (MWE) that shows the misbehaviour.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[hannah2233]

I'm having the exact same problem.

localghost what do you mean by 'entry for LoF' in \caption[Entry for LoF]
I've been trying to solve this problem for a year now!

[Johannes_B]

Try it out

Sometimes, captions for a figure (or table, or ...) get pretty long describing the object. The list of ... is just for finding entries, nobody cares about any details, so the optional argument (in square brackets) set the list of ... entry.

Another thing, if your references are chronologically ordered, the first occurence is not in the list of ... anymore.