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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label citesort</title>
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<h3>Sorting and compressing citations</h3>
<p/>If you give LaTeX
<code>\</code><code>cite{fred,joe,harry,min}</code>, its default commands could give
something like “[2,6,4,3]”;
this looks awful. One can of course get the things in order by
rearranging the keys in the <code>\</code><code>cite</code> command, but who wants to do
that sort of thing for no more improvement than “[2,3,4,6]”?
<p/>The <i>cite</i> package sorts the numbers and detects consecutive
sequences, so creating “[2–4,6]”. The <i>natbib</i> package,
with the <code>numbers</code> and <code>sort&compress</code> options, will
do the same when working with its own numeric bibliography styles
(<i>plainnat.bst</i> and <i>unsrtnat.bst</i>).
<p/>If you might need to make hyperreferences to your citations,
<i>cite</i> isn’t adequate. If you add the <i>hypernat</i>
package:
<pre>
\usepackage[...]{hyperref}
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage{hypernat}
...
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
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the <i>natbib</i> and <i>hyperref</i> packages will interwork.
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<dt><tt><i>cite.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite.zip">macros/latex/contrib/cite</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>hypernat.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/hypernat.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/hypernat.sty</a>
<dt><tt><i>hyperref.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyperref</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>plainnat.bst</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/natbib</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>unsrtnat.bst</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/natbib</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=citesort">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=citesort</a>
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