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Certain APS journals require to cite references that are used in the supplement, but not in the main text, in the following way:

@misc{suppl,
    howpublished={See Supplemental Material at XXXX, which includes Refs. [xx-yy].}
}

That is, they should be included as new references in a reference description. Here, xx should be the number of the last reference of the main text + 1 and yy depends on how many new references there are in the supplement.

Is there any way to do this using the \cite-command?

I use revtex4-2 with the corresponding reference packages. I actually got this working simply by using \cite{...} entry of the .bib file as usual. However, I now cannot seem to reproduce the behavior I got initially. I suspect that things depend on the compilation order here, but I am not sure how. I can also not find anything on the topic in the revtex guide, but I may have missed something.

Wolpertinger
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Manual manipulation of the bibliography

REVtex seems to use bibtex - supposedly, you do so, too. This will create a bbl file containing plain LaTeX, that can be directly used in a document, and has the structure

\begin{thebibliography}{1}
...
\bibitem{suppl}
    See Supplemental Material at XXXX, which includes Refs. [xx-yy].
...
\end{thebibliography}

(given you have citet the supplementary references in your paper, or included it via nocite).

When you are done with your manuscript, you can (1) save the bbl file under a new name mybbl.tex, (2) comment \bibliography{...} out and (3) include the references by \input{mybbl} at the end of your paper.

You can then always manually rearrange the sequence of bibitems in the bibliography, including the reference to supplement references.

Change numbering of references in the supplement

To change the starting number of the references (for the supplement xx), see the brilliant hack here: Change bibliography starting number. Actually, it is even easier: insert \setcounter{enumiv}{xx} after \begin{thebibliography}[1]. This will start reference numbers at xx+1.

Ute
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  • Thanks for your answer! If I understand correctly, this only addresses the issue of ordering though, right? – Wolpertinger May 23 '23 at 13:37
  • Maybe I did not get your problem exactly, and I did not have enough rep a few days ago to ask in the comments. Yes, I thought that you had problems to put the reference to suppl at the end of your bibliography, and assumed that the actual supplement is a separate TeX document. Putting \setcounter{enumiv}{341} in the supplements bibliography helps to start the numbering of references in the supplement at 342.

    Are you processing supplement and main text in the same document?

     – Ute May 23 '23 at 15:24
  • The supplement is separate, but I really just mentioned it for background. The feature I want is independent: to cite a reference inside the bibliography entry. – Wolpertinger May 23 '23 at 15:58
  • Do you mean, your list of references should be References [1] Einstein. A (1908)... ... [25] Olpertinger W (2022) the final world formula [26] See Supplemental Material at XXXX, which includes Refs. [27-398].

    And text: As already mentioned in [1, 17, 26] blabla

     – Ute May 23 '23 at 16:01
  • Or should you specify [xx-yy] more precisely, and your bibliography becomes [1] Einstein. A (1908)... ... [25] Olpertinger W (2022) the final world formula [26] See Supplemental Material at XXXX, which includes Refs. [32-37]. [27] See Supplemental Material at XXXX, which includes Refs. [38-104]. [28] See Supplemental Material at XXXX, which includes Refs. [105-106].

    and so on?

     – Ute May 23 '23 at 16:05
  • ... I somehow don't get it :-) Away for now – Ute May 23 '23 at 16:07
  • the first option. So one of the bib entries contains a reference to new entries. – Wolpertinger May 23 '23 at 17:29
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Ute May 23 '23 at 21:37