Latex - Multiple references in one citation

[minger]

Guys,

I am trying to get my citations to do a "through" type thing, ala,. . .gotten using this method [1-4].

Rather, I am getting an entire listing, ala. . . gotten using this method [1, 2, 3, 4].

I am simply using

. . . gotten using this method~\cite{ref1,ref2,re3,ref4}.

which from what I understand should be enough. Is there an issue with my bibstyle?

I am using the elsarticle class and elsarticle-num.bst if anyone is familiar with them. I have access to the other .bst classes if anyone can recommend one to remedy this situation.

 

[DrClaude]

It is indeed the bib style that controls that. I don't know of a method to coerce elsarticle-num.bst to condense citations.

The bibliography stiles included with REVTex can do it.
https://journals.aps.org/revtex
Otherwise, one can create a custom bibliography style quite simply using merlin:
https://www.andy-roberts.net/res/writing/latex/merlin.pdfhttps://ctan.org/tex-archive/bibliography/bibtex/contrib/custom-bib?lang=en