Numbered ordering of multiple citations

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I am using bibliographystyle{ieeetr} to ensure citations are numbered by their appearance in the paper. With multiple citations however, the numbers can be out or order because of the order they appeared somewhere earlier in the paper:

cite{paper1, paper2, paper3} ==> [5, 3, 10]

Is there a way to ensure that the numbers appear in order with multiple citations?

Andrew Swann · Accepted Answer

This functionality is provided by the cite package.  By default it will also compress lists of citations so [1,2,3] becomes [1-3], however a document stating with

documentclass{article}

usepackage[nocompress]{cite}
bibliographystyle{ieeetr}

will produce the effect you wish.  Sorting can be turned off by using the [nosort] option.

Incidentally, I notice that there are alternative bibliography styles for IEEE Transactions, called ieeetrans which include a variant ieeetranS that sorts citations by default.  These styles seem to be newer. May be you should consider using those instead.

Iizuki · Answer

For anyone wondering how this works in biblatex, you need to specify sortcites=true option.
E.g. when loading the package:
usepackage[sortcites=true]{biblatex}

For more details, see this question.

Numbered ordering of multiple citations

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