UK TeX FAQ -- question 108

### Multiple citations

A convention sometimes used in physics journals is to "collapse" a group of related citations into a single entry in the bibliography. BibTeX, by default, can't cope with this arrangement, but the mcite package deals with the problem.

The package overloads the `\cite` command, so that citations of the form `\cite{paper1,paper2}` appear in the document as a single citation, and appear arranged appropriately in the bibliography itself. You need to alter the bibliography style (`.bst`) file you use; the pakage documentation tells you how to do that.

`mcite.sty`
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/mcite.tar.gz