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<p/>A convention sometimes used in physics journals is to &ldquo;collapse&rdquo; a group of
related citations into a single entry in the bibliography. BibTeX,
by default, can&rsquo;t cope with this arrangement, but the <i>mcite</i>
-package deals with the problem.
-<p/>The package overloads the <code>\</code><code>cite</code> command to recognise a
+and <i>mciteplus</i> packages deal with the problem.
+<p/><i>mcite</i> overloads the <code>\</code><code>cite</code> command to recognise a
&ldquo;<code>*</code>&rdquo; at the start of a key, so that citations of the form
<blockquote>
<pre>
@@ -29,20 +29,31 @@ paper 3.
<p/>You need to make a small change to the bibliography style
(<code>.bst</code>) file you use; the <i>mcite</i> package
documentation tells you how to do that.
-<p/>Unfortunately, the <i>revtex</i> system doesn&rsquo;t play with
-<i>mcite</i>. As a result, for that (primarily physics-targeted
-system) you need to play silly games like:
+<p/>(Despite these multiple citations being primarily a physics-oriented
+requirement, the <i>RevTeX</i> (Physics support) class doesn&rsquo;t work
+with <i>mcite</i>.
+<p/>The <i>mciteplus</i> package adresses many of the infelicites of
+<i>mcite</i>, and <em>does</em> work with <i>RevTeX</i>. Again,
+&lsquo;ordinary&rsquo; <code>.bst</code> files will not work with
+<i>mciteplus</i>, but the package documentation explains how to
+patch an existing BibTeX style.
+<p/>The <i>collref</i> package takes a rather different approach to the
+problem, and will work with most (if not all) BibTeX packages.
+<i>Collref</i> spots common subsets of the references, so if it
+sees a sequence
<blockquote>
<pre>
-\cite{paper0,paper1,paper3}
-\nocite{paper2}
+\cite{paper0,paper1,paper2,paper3}
+...
+\cite{some_other_paper,paper1,paper2,and_another}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
-and then edit the <code>.bbl</code> file to merge the two citations, to
-achieve the effects of <i>mcite</i>.
+it will collect <code>paper1</code> and <code>paper2</code> as a multiple reference.
<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>mcite.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcite.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mcite</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcite.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcite/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>revtex bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/revtex.zip">macros/latex/contrib/revtex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/revtex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/revtex/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>collref.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/collref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/collref</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/collref/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>mcite.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcite.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mcite</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcite/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>mciteplus.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mciteplus.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mciteplus</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mciteplus/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>revtex bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/revtex.zip">macros/latex/contrib/revtex</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/revtex/">browse the directory</a>)
</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mcite">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mcite</a>
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