Document Classes ⇒ Collapsing and superscripting of citations

[J Walker]

I am having great difficulty collapsing citations.

Background: MikTex 2.7 using WinEdt 5.5. I am trying to get collapsecite.sty working, but no luck. I have even tried supercite.sty and overcite.sty, but none of them see to perform their purpose (that is, citations are not superscripted). The style file tells me to insert "citecollapse" as an option in the document declaration. The files themselves are located in the same directory as the source LaTeX files.

Oh, I did refresh the File Name DataBase in WinEdt. No effect.

Here is my preamble:

\documentclass[11pt,citecollapse]{article}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{fancyheadings}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[toc]{appendix}
\usepackage{appendix}
\renewcommand{\appendixtocname}{Appendices}
\renewcommand{\appendixpagename}{Appendices}

Here is my bibliography declaration:

\small
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{mybibfile}

Is it possible that one of the other packages I am using is conflicting with citecollapse.sty? Am I declaring the use of cite.sty and citecollapse.sty properly? Is cite.sty needed for the other style files to work?

This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions?

[gmedina]

Using the cite package with the super option should be enough to achieve what you desire. Take a look at the following example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[super]{cite}

\begin{document}

As it was noticed in\cite{mifflin,winter.periaux.ea,billups.watson}

\nocite{*}

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{biblio}

\end{document}

File biblio.bib:

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@article{mifflin,
  	author    = "R. Mifflin",
  	title     = "Semismooth and semiconvex functions in constrained
               optimization",
  	journal   = "Siam Journal on Control",
  	year      = "1977",
  	volume    = "15",
  	pages     = "957--972"
}

@book{winter.periaux.ea,
    	author    = "G. Winter and J. Periaux and M. Galan and P. Cuesta",
    	title     = "Genetic Algorithms in Engineering and Computer
		 Science",
    	publisher = "John Wiley and Sons",
    	address   = "Chickester, England",
    	year      = "1995"
}

@techreport{billups.watson,
	author    = "S. C. Billups and L. T. Watson",
    	title     = "A probability-one homotopy algorithm for nonsmooth equations  
              and mixed complementarity problems",
    	institution = "University of Colorado at Denver",
    	year      = "2000",
    	month     = "September",
    	address   = "Denver, Colorado",
    	type      = "UCD/CCM Report No.",		     
    	number    = "165"
}

@techreport{savic.walters,
	author    = "D. A. Savic and G. A. Walters",
    	title     = "Genetic Algorithm Techniques for Calibrating Network
              Models",
    	institution  = " University of Exeter",
    	year      = "1995",
    	number         = "95/12"
}
		  
@inproceedings{anderson,
  	author    = "E. J. Anderson",
  	title     = "A New Primal Algorithm for Semi-Infinite Linear
                 Programming",
  	booktitle = "Proceedings of an International Symposium on Infinite
                 Dimensional Linear Programming, Cambridge, September
                 1984",
  	year      = "1985",
  	editor =       "E. J. Anderson and A. B. Philpott",
  	publisher =    "Springer-Verlag",
  	address =      "Berlin"
}

@proceedings{conn.scheinberg.ea,
     	author = "A. R. Conn and K. Scheinberg and Ph. L. Toint",
     	title  = "Recent progress in unconstrained nonlinear optimization without  
              derivatives",
     	booktitle  = "Mathematical Programming",
     	year       = "1997",
     	editor     = "Thomas M. Liebling and Dominique de Werra",
     	publisher  = "Mathematical Programming Society",
     	address    = "North-Holland"
}

@phdthesis{dearaujo,
   	author  = "Jose Vicente Granato de Araujo",
   	title   = "A Statistically Based Procedure for Calibration of Water
              Distribution Systems",
   	school  = "Oklahoma State University",
   	year    = "1992",
   	address = "Stillwater, Oklahoma",
   	month   = "May"
}

Remark: do not load the cite and natbib packages simultaneously.

[gmedina]

On a second read of your original post, I noticed that you are loading the now obsolete fancyheadings package; use fancyhdr instead. I also would suggest you to use the xcolor package instead of color.

[J Walker]

Thanks for the help. I got it working.

[J Walker]

Well, I thought I had it working.

I compiled and it looked great. The citation numbers showed up compressed and all. Great!

Compiled again. I get question marks instead. (Why? I have no idea.)

Okay, I returned the file back to its original state. I shouldn't get any citation compression, but at least my citation numbers should show up, right? Nope. I still get question marks.

I removed all non-.tex and non-.bib files and compiled again. Nope. I refreshed the FNDB. Nope.

So I have lost ground. What was working before no longer works. (And this appears to happen to me a lot with LaTeX.)

Crud! Well, I'll keep working on it.