Suzanne,
I am assuming the original poster is using the Word 2007 bibliography
tools. Hence, what is displayed ([1,2,3,4]) is not something he wrote
himself but something which is generated by the citation stylesheets.
In that case the output he displays is actually nothing more than the
following field (with made-up references):
{ CITATION AUT99 \m CIT03 \m BIB05 \m XYZ07 }
with AUT99 being displayed as "[1,", CIT03 as "2,", BIB05 as "3," and
XYZ07 as "4]".
Whenever the author selects the bibliography formatting style on the
Reference tab, all CITATION and BIBLIOGRAPHY fields get reevaluated
and any part you have marked as hidden would be no longer hidden and
you would have to hide it again. It happened to me a few times when I
was editing a source and had to regenerate my bibliography only (not
my in-text citations). I know I should have clicked update field
instead, but the bibliography style selector is somehow more
convenient for me to reach.
Maybe more importantly, when the in-text citation is added through the
user interface, which I assume is the most likely way to do it for the
average Word user, the field result can not be manually edited. Only
if you add the field by hand, you can edit its result. So I would not
be surprised if the OP would be able to hide the unwanted text and
then came back here telling that he could not add the dash. The reason
why Microsoft does not allow you to edit the citation field result
when entered through the UI is discussed by Jennifer Michelstein at
http://blogs.msdn.com/joe_friend/archive/2006/07/13/664960.aspx .
Yves
Unless there's something going on here that I don't understand, what
you've
said sounds like nonsense to me. The standard way to accomplish this is
exactly as grammatim stated it: you enter all the footnote/endnote
references in a sequence (you don't need the commas), then type an en
dash
after the first or before the last and format the middle ones as Hidden.
This does not affect the display of the footnotes/endnotes themselves.
OTOH, instead of having four separate notes, you could equally well cite
all
four sources in a single note, separated by semicolons.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
How do I group together a bunch of citations? What i mean how can I
convert
citations from [1,2,3,4] to [1-4]?
I am using IEEE style with square brackets.
Unfortunately, inter in-textcitationdoes not allow for such
formatting rules.
One solution is to, once you finished your document, move your mouse
over the in-textcitation, click on the arrow to the right and select
'Convertcitationto static text'. Then you can update the formatting
any way you want.
Alternatively, you could hide part of the in-textcitationby setting
the font of the selected part to 'Hidden'. Be aware though that
grouped in-text citations all belong to one field and that a field
update will therefore make the hidden parts reappear. So just like the
previous solution, you should do this only after you finished your
document.
Yves
