[OS X TeX] bibliographystyle question

Aaron Jackson jackson at negril.msrce.howard.edu
Sat Nov 13 21:22:08 CET 2004


Use citesort package.

On Nov 13, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

>
> \opening{sorry if this is a 101er}
>
> I'm preparing an article (with LaTeX using BBEdit and BibDesk) that 
> has a LOT of long citation "chains". I want numerical citations in 
> parenthesis and in order of citation appearance (the specifics of the 
> formatting in the bibliography are not critical), so my options from 
> the 32 .bst files I have installed seem to be:
>
>         unsrt
>         plunsrt
>         apalike
>         ieeetr
>
> but none of these produce exactly what I want in terms of citation 
> formatting. I'm using e.g.:
>
> ...
>         \bibliographystyle{unsrt}
>         \renewcommand{\refname}{Literature}
> \bibliography{myBibfile}
> ...
>
> and I get output like this:
>
> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,11,12,13,19,23,29]
>
> what I would like is:
>
> [1-7,11-13,19,23,29]
>
> Is there a .bst/.sty or a mod of a "standard" .bst for this ?
>
> If not, I imagine (perhaps naively), that I'll have to get involved 
> with makebst.tex (maybe operating on merlin.mbs) ? This is completely 
> unchartered territory for me.
>
> Or maybe there is something in TeX that one can run to "post-process" 
> e.g.
>
>         <initial steps>
>         bibtex
>         latex
>         latex
>         <TeX macro ?>
>         latex
>
> ?
>
> wtia,
>
> mark.
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