BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Sort Citations by Reference Number

[andankert]

Hi,

I'm just finalizing my thesis and have a minor design question. If I reference some papers multiple times in different combinations, I cannot keep track of their order in the bibliography. That means, some references will occur in the document like this [43,12,23,13,14]. Is there a way that the order is automatically adjusted to read [12,13,14,23,43], or even better [12-14,23,43]?

Thanks!

[cgnieder]

Hi andankert,

Welcome to the LaTeX coummunity!

Please provide us with a minimal working example (if you don't know what that is please follow the link). There are several ways to cite and create bibliographies and any possible solutions depends on how you do it.

Regards

[andankert]

Hi,

since it includes a bibliography file, I made this example, explaining my problem at the same time:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{bibfile.bib}
@article{Nobody01,
  author = "Nobody A",
  title = "My Article A",
  journal="J1",
  year = "2002"
}
@article{Nobody02,
  author = "Nobody B",
  title = "My Article B",
  journal="J1",
  year = "2001"
}
@article{Nobody03,
  author = "Nobody C",
  title = "My Article C",
  journal="J1",
  year = "2006"
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
First I introduce some citations from here \cite{Nobody01,Nobody02} and here \cite{Nobody03}. But then I just talk about \cite{Nobody03} and \cite{Nobody01}, not taking care of the order \cite{Nobody03,Nobody01}, which switches the order. Especially if I do this \cite{Nobody03,Nobody01,Nobody02}, it doesn't write [1-3]. In article the reordering works though! Maybe just in my bib-style or so? 
\bibliographystyle{vancouver}
\bibliography{bibfile}

\end{document}

Thanks for your help!

André

[cgnieder]

Good MWE!

You can add

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\usepackage[numbers,sort]{natbib}

to your preamble or even

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\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}

The latter would format the list as [1--3] while the former gives [1, 2, 3].

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[numbers,sort]{natbib}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{bibfile.bib}
@article{Nobody01,
  author = "Nobody A",
  title = "My Article A",
  journal="J1",
  year = "2002"
}
@article{Nobody02,
  author = "Nobody B",
  title = "My Article B",
  journal="J1",
  year = "2001"
}
@article{Nobody03,
  author = "Nobody C",
  title = "My Article C",
  journal="J1",
  year = "2006"
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
First I introduce some citations from here \cite{Nobody01,Nobody02} and here
\cite{Nobody03}. But then I just talk about \cite{Nobody03} and
\cite{Nobody01}, not taking care of the order \cite{Nobody03,Nobody01}, which
switches the order. Especially if I do this \cite{Nobody03,Nobody01,Nobody02},
it doesn't write [1-3]. In article the reordering works though! Maybe just in
my bib-style or so?

\bibliographystyle{vancouver}
\bibliography{bibfile}

\end{document}

Regards

[andankert]

Excellent! That did the job!

Thanks a lot Clemens!!!

André