Numeric citation format: multiple citations within square brackets

[iabraham]

Description

My question is exactly this question but with Quarto. In the example/documentation we are shown:

Blah Blah [@wickham2015; @knuth1984].

turn to

Blah Blah [1, 2].

However the documentation did not tell which CSL file or YAML option it used to create that particular output. I looked at the Github source for that page and it seems the shown output was hard coded. I am using the ieee.csl file. This format of clubbing together multiple citations in single brackets is a very common (personally I find [2,6,9,11] is more aesthetic than [2][6][9]]11] and clearly from the very first link to Stackexchange, many other people do as well).

How can I do this in Quarto?

[mcanouil]

Default CSL in Pandoc/Quarto is "Chicago Manual of Style".

If you are looking for bracketed references, see the links for CSL files in https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/footnotes-and-citations.html#citation-style.

[iabraham]

Here is a link to the "Chicago Manual of Style" just to help myself answer the question.

[mcanouil]

I don't understand "just to help myself answer the question." and "😕" ...

There are multiple and various styles which can do the bracket thing.
Were you expecting me to list them for you? In Quarto documentation, you have a link to https://www.zotero.org/styles and to https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles.
The gallery from Zotero also includes a preview.

For example using "bracket" as keyword:

[iabraham]

I understand all that; I can follow links and read the documentation. However you have posted a non-answer.

I specifically asked: how do you combine two or more citations under single bracket as shown in the documentation? For example, the IEEE style file uses the numeric format; however if you try using it; it doesn't do what I want:

"Go read the manual" is perfectly acceptable if completely useless answer to almost any question. If you read the StackExchange link in the original post; you would see that the default IEEE style behaves as above. However, if you provide numeric-comp as the citation style it will change its behavior:

\usepackage[backend=bibtex,bibstyle=ieee,citestyle=numeric-comp]{biblatex}

How does one do that in Quarto? And once again "Go read the citation language schema and write one .csl file yourself" is a perfectly acceptable answer; even if not very useful.

[mcanouil]

Let me rephrase, this has nothing to do with Pandoc/Quarto, it's all defined by the CSL file.
Thus to look for CSL doing that and/or modify one.

[mcanouil]

To note, you asked to do "combined bracketed citation" in Quarto, I answered exactly how to do that, i.e., use the syntax from the documentation and a compatible CSL file.

Now you are asking, "how can I have combined bracketed citation using ieee?".
Not at all the same question.

[iabraham]

For anyone stumbling across this question; the fix is to slightly modify the .csl file (posted here as a .txt file since Github does not recognize the proper extension).

ieee-mod.txt

[DbCrWk]

@iabraham thanks for this solution! It works well for me :)