Achieveing compressed citations: [10]-[15] vs [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

[DavidC]

I’m using google docs + Paperpile (paid version) and whenever I have consecutive citations, I’d like them to appear compressed. For instance:

As other studies have shown [10]-[15]

However, I can only achieve this:

As other studies have shown [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

which is quite annoying specially if there is limited space.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Minimal Working Example:
I’m using the paid version of Paperpile.
In the main menu of google docs, under Paperpile > Citation Style,
I have set: IEEE (with URL) (see below image).

Then I also have the Paperpile google docs Extension:
So that under Extension > Paperpile > Manage Citations it opens a menu where I can unformat the citations and read them as:

As other studies have shown [(author1  2019)](https://paperpile.com/xxx)[(author 2 Nagel et al. 2003)](https://paperpile.com/yyyy)[(author3  2015)](https://paperpile.com/zzzz)[(author4 2013)](https://paperpile.com/www)

When going back to Paperpile > Format Citations, they’re rendered showing

As other studies have shown [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

where the desired result is:

As other studies have shown [10]-[15]

[suzanne]

@DavidC welcome to the community! Thanks for reaching out here and on chat. I’ve answered your query via chat; let me know if my answer hasn’t been helpful.

[nullbyte]

It’s bad internet etiquette to post an answer like that instead of the solution! It will pollute search results

The solution is actually just to add multiple articles to the same citation, instead of making a new citation for each article. Just click the citation and add more.

[suzanne]

In Google Docs, click Paperpile > Insert citation. You can insert multiple citations:

Then click Paperpile > Format citations. They will be formatted in IEEE (with url) style as shown: