citation call-outs separated with a semicolon

Question

I am using the following:

\citep[vgl. bspw. ][S. 380]{Bortz2006}\citep[S. 40]{Fayyad1996}\citep[S. 11]{Maimon2010}

to get the output:

[vgl. bspw. BD06, S. 380][FPSS96, S. 40][MR10, S. 11]

Is it possible to separated the citation with a semicolon and not with a square bracket, like this:

[vgl. bspw. BD06, S. 380; FPSS96, S. 40; MR10, S. 11]

Welcome to TeX.SE! Please tell us (a) which bibliography style you employ and (b) the ways in which you've modified the natbib defaults. E.g., do you set the square option when loading the package? — Mico, Aug 15 '16 at 09:41
maybe have a look at http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/18911/36296, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/164208/multiple-citations-with-individual-page-numbers-using-natbib or http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/166097/natbib-multiple-citations-with-page-numbers-in-one-bracket — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 15 '16 at 09:41
i am using natbib with style lni \usepackage[numbers]{natbib} \bibliographystyle{bibstyle/lni} — mvp285286, Aug 15 '16 at 09:48

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '16 at 09:57

I think you should replace

\citep[vgl.~bspw.][S.~380]{Bortz2006}\citep[S.~40]{Fayyad1996}\citep[S.~11]{Maimon2010}

with

\citetext{vgl. bspw. \citealp[S.~380]{Bortz2006}; \citealp[S.~40]{Fayyad1996}; 
\citealp[S.~11]{Maimon2010}}

Observe the use of \citetext and three \citealp instructions.

A full MWE (minimum working example):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
%\bibliographystyle{lni} 
\frenchspacing
\begin{document}

\citep[vgl.~bspw.][S.~380]{Bortz2006}\citep[S.~40]{Fayyad1996}\citep[S.~11]{Maimon2010}

\medskip
\citetext{vgl. bspw. \citealp[S.~380]{Bortz2006}; \citealp[S.~40]{Fayyad1996}; \citealp[S.~11]{Maimon2010}}

\begin{thebibliography}{99} % just for this example
\bibitem[BD06]{Bortz2006} stuff

\bibitem[FPSS96]{Fayyad1996} stuff

\bibitem[MR10]{Maimon2010} stuff
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

thx, that is exactly what I need! – mvp285286 Aug 15 '16 at 10:00 — mvp285286, Aug 15 '16 at 10:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '22 at 22:35

I think the biblatex multicite command \parencites can be an easy solution to this problem.

After defining the .bib file, for example mybib.bib:

@incollection{Bortz2006,
  title     = {Quantitative Methoden der Datenerhebung},
  author    = {Bortz, J{\"u}rgen and D{\"o}ring, Nicola},
  booktitle = {Forschungsmethoden und Evaluation},
  pages     = {137--293},
  year      = {2006},
  publisher = {Springer}
}
@article{Fayyad1996,
  title     = {The KDD process for extracting useful knowledge from volumes of data},
  author    = {Fayyad, Usama and Piatetsky-Shapiro, Gregory and Smyth, Padhraic},
  journal   = {Communications of the ACM},
  volume    = {39},
  number    = {11},
  pages     = {27--34},
  year      = {1996},
  publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA}
}
@article{Maimon2010,
  title     = {Data mining and knowledge discovery handbook},
  author    = {Maimon, Oded and Rokach, Lior},
  year      = {2010},
  publisher = {Springer}
}

You can then use the biblatex package in the .tex file as follows:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic, natbib=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{mybib.bib}
\begin{document}
Original output:
\citep[vgl. bspw. ][S. 380]{Bortz2006}\citep[S. 40]{Fayyad1996}\citep[S. 11]{Maimon2010}
\medskip
Output using \textbackslash parencites:
\parencites()()[vgl. bspw. ][S. 380]{Bortz2006}[S. 40]{Fayyad1996}[S. 11]{Maimon2010}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

With biblatex, run pdflatex + biber + pdflatex *2 to generate this output:

citation call-outs separated with a semicolon

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