Non superscript citations for figures

Question

Is it possible to reference figures like so

taken from \emph{ref. \cite{reference}}

with non superscript numbers, while leaving the rest of the references in the bulk of the document untouched? This is using BibTeX and the RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) style.

Answer 1

Assuming you load natbib with its super option, you could take the code natbib is executing in case super isn't used and add it to the code executed at the start of floats.

EDIT: Or, as Joseph Wright has commented, "Why not just use \citenum?"

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[super]{natbib}

% \makeatletter
% \g@addto@macro\@floatboxreset{%
%   \let\NAT@mbox=\mbox
%   \let\@cite\NAT@citenum
%   \let\NAT@space\NAT@spacechar
%   \let\NAT@super@kern\relax
% }
% \makeatother

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{A figure (taken from \emph{ref. \citenum{A01}})}
\end{figure}

Some text.\citep{A01}

\bibliographystyle{rsc}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}