reference other reported works in the form of [-]

Question

how to reference other reported works in the form of [-]?

I tried the following trick but didnot work out.

\cite{IEEE:Zhu - IEEE:Nguyen}

I'm using article document class.

Answer 1

Compressing can be achieved with the natbib package. Use the option sort&compress or compress if the bib entries should just be compressed, but not sorted:

\usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib}

If you use hyperref, this will cause problems, but the package hypernat can make them work together, but the order is of importance:

\usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{hypernat}

Answer 2

Sorting and compression of citations is accomplished also with the cite package:

\usepackage{cite}

that works with the standard BibTeX styles and also with a directly written thebibliography environment.