merging multiple citations in one entry using LaTex

[hsin]

Hello,

I am using rsc.bst as the bibiliography style of my text. It offers the merge of multiple citations in one reference entry by adding an asterisk to every of the citation keys following the lead one, for example:

\cite{ref1,*ref2,*ref3}
result:
[1](a)ref1;(b)ref2;(c)ref3.

However, it seems that Bookends copes the asterisk as a part of the citation key thus not able to match the citation. My current solution is to scan the text and compile the bib file without the asterisks, and add them afterwards. It is getting inconvenient when there are more citations to include and I have to rescan the text for several times. Do you have better solutions?

Thanks a lot,
Hsin

[Jon]

If you're scanning in Bookends, it won't recognize the asterisk as anything special. Is it that you wan the asterisk to survive the scan? And be emitted before the final citation that Bookends generates?

Jon
Sonny Software

[hsin]

yes exactly! Is there a way to let the Bookends scan omit the asterisk?

[Jon]

Try putting the asterisk in the "quoted text" punctuation, the backslash:

{\*\ref1, \*\ref2}

and see if you get what you want.

Jon
Sonny Software

[hsin]

unfortunately this still doesn't work (at least for my case), but thanks for the suggestion

[Jon]

Please contact tech support (support@sonnysoftware.com) with simple example of the the temp citation you are using and the output you want.

Jon
Sonny Software