Starting the bibliography counter from a given number

[arnaudgallou]

I have citations in a document (say doc2) that must follow citations from another document (doc1) sequentially, without displaying citations from doc1 in the bibliography. I then would like to set the counter of the bibliography in doc2 manually to make it starts at e.g. 46.

I've tried using \setcounter{enumiv}{46} in the include-in-header parameter based on a few posts (e.g. here or there) but I can't make it work. The counter still starts at 1.

How can I set the counter in the bibliography?

[cderv]

Are you targetting PDF output here ? Did you customize cite-method configuration ?

If not it will use Pandoc citeproc (https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#citations) and your preamble won't be taken into account.

You need to switch to natbib probably to make it work.

[arnaudgallou]

Sorry, forgot to say it's for PDF. I didn't use the cite-method parameter so I initially tried it with the default value. I've just tried with natbib instead but it still doesn't work, whether I copy/paste codes I find online or just use \setcounter{enumiv}{46}.

[cderv]

I don't really know how to do that in LaTeX. Can you share a reproducible example so that I can have a look? What did you try exactly ?

[arnaudgallou]

I made a test repo here. I didn't notice but I'm getting a Misplaced alignment tab character &. error when using natbib in the original document. The example I made runs properly with natbib which seems to ignore the .csl. I'm clueless about LaTeX, I tried the following:

include-in-header:
  text: |
    \setcounter{enumiv}{46}

include-in-header:
  text: |
    \usepackage{xpatch}
    \newcounter{mybibstartvalue}
    \setcounter{mybibstartvalue}{46}
    \xpatchcmd{\thebibliography}{%
      \usecounter{enumiv}%
    }{%
      \usecounter{enumiv}%
      \setcounter{enumiv}{\value{mybibstartvalue}}%
    }{}{}

include-in-header:
  text: |
    \usepackage{multibib}
    \let\oldthebibliography=\thebibliography
    \renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{%
       \oldthebibliography{#1}%
       \setcounter{enumiv}{46}%
    }

Tried with the default cite-method value, biblatex and natbib.

[cderv]

This is really a LaTeX issue. As you are targetting PDF and there is no supported config for that (as I think it is not that command to change it), you need to tweak the LaTeX directly. Probably the code you found is not working properly. Let me give a few details though:

The example I made runs properly with natbib which seems to ignore the .csl

CSL file is only for Pandoc citeproc. So yes with natbib you'll need to use a biblio-style instead

I'm clueless about LaTeX,

You'll need to search around and try - I found this: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69675/how-to-set-the-number-of-the-first-citation

Try this

---
format:
  pdf:
    cite-method: natbib
    keep-tex: true
    natbiboptions: numbers
    include-before-body:
      text: |
        \makeatletter
        \apptocmd{\thebibliography}{\global\c@NAT@ctr 15\relax}{}{}
        \makeatother
bibliography: references.bib
---

@brown1996, @vonhumboldt1805

It should work.

• I use include-before-body because include-in-header will insert before natbib is loaded, so I think that prevents it for working.
• It using etoolsbox package but it is already included in the template.

I have citations in a document (say doc2) that must follow citations from another document (doc1) sequentially, without displaying citations from doc1 in the bibliography.

Maybe there is specific tool in LaTeX ecosystem that can help you with that, but I don't know it.

Anwyay, I don't think Quarto can help here. You can ask your question on specific TeX Q&A site too.

[arnaudgallou]

Thank you so much for taking some time to look into it. Your code worked. The only issue I have now is to make it work with a specific citation style for the journal I'm submitting to but I should be able to get by from there.