Cite multiple references with Bibtex?

Question

So I use bibtex and I have set my \bibliographystyle to be unsrt. I want Latex to render something like this:

ref [1]-[5] support this claim.

but if i write:

\cite{x1} - \cite{x5} blah blah

citation items 2, 3 and 4 are not gonna be listed in the bibliography list in the end, whereas I want them to be present. How can I do it?

You can load cite package and say ref~\cite{x1,x2,x3,x4,x5} to get ref [1-5]. FYI, you can include citations in bibliography list by using \nocite{x2,x3,x4} — , Aug 07 '13 at 15:41
@lockstep oops. didn't see that although this is in a slightly different setting. — Shb, Aug 07 '13 at 15:46

score 84 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 30 '24 at 17:01

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You should include all the references in the \cite command, without a blankspace, for them to appear in the Bibliography chapter:

\cite{citation01,citation02,citation03,citation04,citation05}

Don't forget to include:

\usepackage{cite}

in the preamble. The output should be something like:

Refs [1-5] support this claim.

edited Jan 30 '24 at 17:01

answered Aug 07 '13 at 15:47

Nicolas

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note that if you want to include page numbers, you can use \cites[1--3]{citation01}[7--9]{citation02}, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/18911/ – GlabbichRulz Aug 04 '18 at 08:22
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For those that need it: you can't have whitespace in the comma-separated list. – Jul 11 '21 at 19:01
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As far as I can tell @GlabbichRulz' comment refers to biblatex not bibtex. – Eric Aug 09 '22 at 20:22

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