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I cannot get IEEEtran in-text citations to format properly. I am getting citation compressions looking like [1-5] instead of [1]-[5] as it is in IEEE journals. I have bibliographies after each chapter so I'm using \usepackage{chapterbib}. Also, I could only get any citation compression with \usepackage[noadjust]{cite}. Without this, my citations would look like [1,2,3,4,5]. Any ideas on where I'm going wrong? I am using a custom document class instead of the IEEE class.

This is the code in the parent .tex file

\usepackage{chapterbib}    
\usepackage[noadjust]{cite}

This is the code within each chapter .tex

\cite{author1,author2,author3,author4,author5}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}    
\bibliography{IEEEabrv,bibfile}
Jesse Montgomery
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  • Because believe it or not, they are manually adjusted by the publication office. See this related one: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/78108/displaying-in-text-citations-in-a-compressed-way-e-g-1-3-instead-of-the-def – percusse Oct 07 '13 at 21:22
  • Unfortunately, not using \usepackage[noadjust]{cite} produces citations that look like [1,2,3,4,5] rather than [1-5]. Also, this is for a dissertation and I won't have any editing help from the IEEE publication office. – Jesse Montgomery Oct 28 '13 at 21:11

2 Answers2

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With \usepackage{chapterbib} and \usepackage{cite}, you can customize the in text citation with

\renewcommand\citeform[1]{[#1]}

\renewcommand\citeleft{}

\renewcommand\citeright{}

Answer graciously provided by Donald Arseneau

Jesse Montgomery
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I include the following in the preamble and it compresses the consecutive citations in text.

\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}

in conjunction with the bib style

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranN}
Jayyu
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