Customizing citation style

Question

A quick follow-up to question to Customize citation style, basically.

Right now I am defining a custom command like this

\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{\cite{#1}}

How should I modify it to produce an output like "[1.]"? It should also work with multiple arguments and then output "[1, 2, 3.]". Or if not modifying the command presented, would an easier way exist?

Answer 1

Without some clue about what bibliography style you're using I'm not sure how much can be usefully said about your question.

If I understand the question correctly, you want to have \cite that produces [1] and \mycite that produces [1.]. I don't think you can do this straightforwardly by patching \cite in this way.

If you switched to a bibliography style where \cite just produced 1, then you could easily define:

\newcommand\mycite[1]{[\cite{#1}]}
\newcommand\mydotcite[1]{[\cite{#1}.]}