Stop cite footnote and dot switching positions

Question

LaTeX changed position of dot, why?
please see the below example
to the third dimensioncite{Ref13}.

and the result:

The dot was supposed to be on the right of the footnote.
Some important parts of my Latex file:
documentclass[12pt]{spieman}  % 12pt font required by SPIE;

%documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{spieman}  % use this instead for A4 paper

usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb}

usepackage{graphicx}

usepackage{setspace}

usepackage{tocloft}

usepackage{lineno}

usepackage{xcolor, soul}

sethlcolor{green}

usepackage{subcaption}

usepackage{cleveref}

%%%%% References %%%%%

bibliography{report}   % bibliography data in report.bib

bibliographystyle{spiejour}   % makes bibtex use spiejour.bst

vspace{1ex}

noindent Biographies and photographs of the other authors are not available.

end{spacing}

end{document}

cgnieder · Answer

It looks like a deliberate design decision: the class spieman.cls does
RequirePackage[super]{cite}. The package cite describes this behavior for the cite command with the super option.

trailing punctuation is moved to come before the superscript citation

It also says

You may disable movement with the [nomove] package option.

The authors of spieman.cls decided not to do that so I can only repeat: this looks like a deliberate design decision.
Anyway, in order to prevent the behavior (and in order to avoid the option clash error) one needs to do either
PassOptionsToPackage{nomove}{cite}

or
RequirePackage[super,nomove]{cite}

before documentclass{spieman}:
PassOptionsToPackage{nomove}{cite}
documentclass[12pt]{spieman}

begin{document}

to the third dimensioncite{Alred03}.

bibliography{report}
bibliographystyle{spiejour}

end{document}

Stop cite footnote and dot switching positions

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