Page Layout ⇒ unwanted space before citation

[Kiwipor]

Hi
I am a new TeX user and currently fighting with a problem regarding citations. I use a very simple citation formal:

Input:
... as discussed by author1 \cite{author1_2009}.
Output:
... as discussed by author1 [1].

Unfortunately I get problems as soon as I want to give references of 2nd order:

Input:
... has never been reported (\cite{author1}, as cited by \cite{author2}).

Output:
... has never been reported ( [1], as cited by [2]).

There is always this SPACE between "(" and "[1]"! Does anyone know how I can get rid of it?

Thanks,

Daniel

[frabjous]

In order to help solve a problem like this, we need to be able to reproduce it, which I cannot do.

Could you produce a minimal working example which shows this misbehavior?

The code:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\ldots\ has never been reported (\cite{author1}, as cited by \cite{author2})
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{sample}
\end{document}

produces the following output for me:

cite.png (2.43 KiB) Viewed 7906 times

There is no space there.

If yours has a space, there must be something different about your document, and without knowing that is, it is impossible to solve.

[ChrisDanger]

Using the cite package does this.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{cite}
\begin{document}
Example of space when cite is used: (\cite{empty} and \cite{empty})
\end{document}

Using the [noadjust] option solves it.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[noadjust]{cite}
\begin{document}
Example of no space when cite's noadjust is used: (\cite{empty} and \cite{empty})
\end{document}

It was in the cite package documentation, under the Customization section.
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... e/cite.pdf