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\section*{The \texttt{authoryear-comp} style}

This style is a compact version of the \texttt{authoryear} style
which prints the author only once if subsequent references passed to
a single citation command share the same author. If they share the
same year as well, the year is also printed only once. This style
will implicitly enable the \texttt{sortcites} package option at load
time.

\subsection*{Additional package options}

\subsubsection*{The \texttt{dashed} option}

By default, this style replaces recurrent authors/editors in the
bibliography by a dash so that items by the same author or editor
are visually grouped. This feature is controlled by the package
option \texttt{dashed}. Setting \texttt{dashed=false} in the
preamble will disable this feature. The default setting is
\texttt{dashed=true}.

\subsubsection*{The \texttt{mergedate} option}

The \texttt{mergedate} option controls whether or not date
specifications are merged with the date label which is printed after
the author in the bibliography. For example, while
\texttt{mergedate=false} outputs:

\begin{quote}
Doe, John (2008a). \enquote{Article}. In: \emph{Journal} 23.5 (May
2008), pp.~5--24.
\end{quote}
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\texttt{mergedate=true} will print:

\begin{quote}
Doe, John (May 2008a). \enquote{Article}. In: \emph{Journal} 23.5,
pp.~15--34.
\end{quote}
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The default setting is \texttt{mergedate=true}. Note that this
options only affects the bibliography. Citations never include full
dates anyway. In this example, the citation will be \enquote{Doe
2008a} in both cases.

\subsection*{Multiple citations}

\cite{knuth:ct:c,aristotle:physics,knuth:ct:b,aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric,knuth:ct:d}

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