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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label mcite</title>
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<h3>Multiple citations</h3>
<p/>A convention sometimes used in physics journals is to “collapse” a group of
related citations into a single entry in the bibliography. BibTeX,
by default, can’t cope with this arrangement, but the <i>mcite</i>
and <i>mciteplus</i> packages deal with the problem.
<p/><i>mcite</i> overloads the <code>\</code><code>cite</code> command to recognise a
“<code>*</code>” at the start of a key, so that citations of the form
<blockquote>
<pre>
\cite{paper1,*paper2}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
appear in the document as a single citation, and appear arranged
appropriately in the bibliography itself. You’re not limited to
collapsing just two references. You can mix “collapsed” references
with “ordinary” ones, as in
<blockquote>
<pre>
\cite{paper0,paper1,*paper2,paper3}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
Which will appear in the document as 3 citations “[4,7,11]”
(say) — citation ‘4’ will refer to paper 0, ‘7’ will refer to a
combined entry for paper 1 and paper 2, and ‘11’ will refer to
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/>Most recent versions of <i>REVTeX</i> (version 4.1 and later), in
conjunction with recent versions of <i>natbib</i>, already contain
support for combined citations and so no longer even need
<i>mciteplus</i> (but <i>mciteplus</i> is more general and will
work with many other class and package combinations).
<p/>The <i>mciteplus</i> package adresses many of the infelicites of
<i>mcite</i>. Again, ‘ordinary’ <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,paper2,paper3}
...
\cite{some_other_paper,paper1,paper2,and_another}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
it will collect <code>paper1</code> and <code>paper2</code> as a multiple reference.
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<dt><tt><i>collref.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/collref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/collref</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/collref/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>mcite.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mcite.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mcite</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mcite/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mcite.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>mciteplus.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mciteplus.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mciteplus</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mciteplus/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mciteplus.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>natbib.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/natbib</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/natbib.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>revtex 4.1</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/revtex.zip">macros/latex/contrib/revtex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/revtex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/revtex4-1.html">catalogue entry</a>
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<p><em>This answer last edited: 2010-07-07</em></p>
<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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