Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 20.06.2019, 15:08 -0400 schrieb Neal Becker: >> I'm writing IEEEtrans (conference) paper. For some reason, the 1st >> citation >> is labelled [4]. The following citations are in order starting with >> [1]. >> What's going on? The latex code just says \cite{whatever}. > > Which bst style is this? Normally, the numbering follows the alphabetic > order of the entries in the bibliography, so it is normal that they > appear "unordered" in the text. If you want to number them as they are > cited, use an "unsrt" style. > > Jürgen
It's an IEEE conf paper, so ieeetr style.