How to eliminate the space between multiple numeric citations when using citep and natbib?

Question

I have a document that is using natbib via the following usepackage command:

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

When I cite multiple papers using the citep command, I get spaces between each of the numbers. For example, the following citation:

\cite{aldrich05,gudmundson01}

Gives me the following in-text output:

[5, 12]

However, I would like it to read:

[5,12]

Is there a way to accomplish this?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '11 at 18:30

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Try the following in your preamble:

\makeatletter
\def\NAT@def@citea{\def\@citea{\NAT@separator}}
\makeatother

answered Jan 12 '11 at 18:30

Alan Munn

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '11 at 18:43

5

\makeatletter
\def\NAT@spacechar{}
\makeatother

answered Jan 12 '11 at 18:43

2

This actually works but has the side effect of making the citet command look funny. – khatchad Jan 24 '11 at 18:26
Great!, this deletes the space between the author and year in author-year style which I needed :) . – Mohamed Vall Feb 28 '16 at 18:59

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 15 '24 at 16:06

0

You can also decrease the space between multiple citations via a kern in \setcitestyle, e.g. \setcitestyle{citesep={,\kern-0.1em}}.

answered Feb 15 '24 at 16:06

Bart

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