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.
