General ⇒ Bibtex question: citing a range of sources

[cabert]

Greetings,

I'm guessing Bibtex may not be useful for this, but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

I'm writing a scientific review paper that has something like 130 sources. I'd like to write it in LaTeX (using MixTeX 2.5 and winedt). I know that only the sources cited directly will show up in the final document. But I was wondering if there's any shortcuts. For example, I'd like something to show up in the following way:

"In the mid-1980's, researchers stalled on the question of anisotropy [50]-[65]."

Clearly I wouldn't like to list every single item, [50], [51], [52], ..., [65] but instead I'd like to cite a range of articles and have them all show up in the final document. Is there any way to do this using Bibtex?

Thanks for any help you can give.

[N00bDaan]

I don't use bibtex myself, instead I use the bibliography command within my .tex file, but when you have a list of references like:

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\bibitem{bib1} reference 1
\bibitem{bib2} reference 2
\bibitem{bib3} reference 3
\bibitem{bib4} reference 4

And you want to reference to all four you just can do this (at least I do it that way):

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"In the mid-1980's, researchers stalled on the question of anisotropy \cite{bib1}-\cite{bib4}." 

Result would be: ....anisotropy [1]-[4].

[cabert]

That does help some, thanks. I mostly wanted to use BibTeX because it automatically formats and renumbers the bibliography. Doing that by hand for 130+ sources is rather cumbersome. Are there any other options?

Thanks!

[balfonsi]

Try the cite package (read the documentation inside cite.sty). It might do what you want. In any any case, it is at least able to collapse '\cite{5,11,12,13,14,A,8}' into
'see [A], [5],[8],[11-14]'
See also breakcites.

You should consult the TeX Catalogue on Line, (topical) and look at 'bibliography' item.

Regards,
B.A.

[cabert]

Thanks, that sounds much more like what I want! I'll look into it.

[Jerry2]

I use the natbib package with the sort & compress option:
\usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib}
then \cite{Ref1,Ref4,Ref5,Ref6] to get output in the form:
[1,4-6].

[braverock]

You can use the JabRef for a Endnote or Procite style bibligraphic manager that stores your reference database in BibTeX. It also integrates to lots of editors, or can generate the citation LaTeX from selected entries.

Regards,
- Brian