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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>
package deals with the problem.
<p>The package 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>
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>
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.
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<dt><tt><i>mcite.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcite.tar.gz">macros/latex/contrib/mcite</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcite.zip">zip</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcite/">browse</a>)
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<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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