Biblatex, numeric style, multicite: Order of references

Question

I'm using \parencites for citing and style=numeric as biblatex option. In the output the references are ordered as in the sourcecode, e.g. [13, 5, 10]

Is there a way to get the references in ascending order?

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=numeric,
    sortcites,
    sorting=nty,
    backref,
    natbib,
    hyperref
]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
  I'll cite Augustine~\cite{augustine} here,
  and a few others
  here~\parencites{aristotle:poetics}{angenendt}{aksin}.
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

It will output I'll cite Augustine [4] here, and a few others here [3, 2, 1].

What I want is: I'll cite Augustine [4] here, and a few others here [1, 2, 3].

So just the sorted inside [ ] while the bibliography stays sorted alphabetically.

Answer 1

You need to specify the option sortcites=true in the preamble. The citations are then sorted according to the global sorting scheme (see more here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/51439/35864).

Cite sorting only works with the "normal" \*cite commands, not with the \*cites ones. This is because in \cites{a}{b} each key is processed as if passed to a single \cite command. \cite{a,b} has the full list available and is thus able to sort the citations. So if you want sorting, you'll need to use \parencite{aristotle:poetics,aksin,angenendt} instead of \parencites{aristotle:poetics}{angenendt}{aksin}.

Note that constructions with pre- and postnotes for each entry such as \parencites[see][2]{aristotle:poetics}[4]{angenendt}[cf.][5]{aksin} cannot be realised with \parencite.