Multiple citation in single square bracket and NATBIB error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations
October 27, 2010
I was writing a paper and found out that if I use multiple citations together they appear rather awkwardly in separate square brackets (e.g. [1], [2], [3]). What I wanted is to have them within one bracket and even better to be as a sequence. Solution to this is to use the NATBIB package and then use the citation labels separated by comma within one \cite command. For example:
\usepackage[square, comma, sort&compress]{natbib}
\cite{bluecoat,ciscowan,riverbed}
Should produce the output
[1-3] if they are citations 1,2, and 3 or [2,5,7] if they are 2,5 and 7.
However, with newer natbib style files there is a weired problem, which shows the error “natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations”.
A simple solution to this problem is to use “numbers” option with the package.
\usepackage[numbers,square, comma, sort&compress]{natbib}
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