[HELP] multicitation delimiter

arnau

Do someone how to do the next thing in the in-text citation:

when there is only one article there is no problem, it is just ¹

the problem is that when there is two articles, there should appear something like ^2,3 with the delimiter =","
and when there is 3 articles it should be like
^1-3

I have searched other style but I have not found any with this characteristics. I have thought to use an "if", but I do not know how to say {if two citation delimiter =","} {else delimiter="-"}
<citation collapse="citation-number">
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
<layout delimiter="," vertical-align="sup" prefix="" suffix=" ">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>
</citation>


(modification from the "Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry" style)

adamsmith

Most numerical styles do that, see e.g. the ACS style
<citation collapse="citation-number">
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
<layout delimiter="," vertical-align="sup">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>
</citation>

The collapse attribute turns the delimiter into a hyphen for ranges.

arnau

@adamsmith thank you for your fast response!
I made a stupid error with the citation test (not with the code), that's why it didn't collapse.

I've been wasting a lot of time trying to solve the "problem" :(

Thanks again, "problem" fixed

adamsmith

happens to all of us all the time. Remember to make your style available publicly once you're done if it has the potential to be of broader interest:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Submitting-Styles