How to prevent \cite at the end of the sentence start a new line with a dot

Question

When I end a sentence like this:

Here is something you should read \cite{name}.

Sometimes the end of the sentence coincies with the end of a row. In this case the next line begins with the dot at the end of the sentence.

Putting the dot before the \cite

Here is something you should read.\cite{name}

solves the problem, but I checked some scientific articles and they all put the dot after the \cite and do not get this adverse effect.

How can I prevent the dot to jump to the next line?

EDIT: A minimum working example:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twocolumn]{jarticle}
\usepackage{evocomp}

\begin{document}
----------------Here is something you should read\cite{lal}.
\end{document}

It seems that the problem is in the evocomp package I am using.

Answer 1

The code you pasted in pastebin defines the guts of \cite as follows:

\def\@cite#1#2{{$^{\mbox{\scriptsize $#1$}}$%
    \if@tempswa , #2\fi}$^{\mbox{\scriptsize $)$}}$ }

The last space, immediately before the final closing brace, has got to be a mistake. It separates the punctuation that follows, with the result that LaTeX can break the line there.

To fix the problem, do not edit the style in place. If you do, and submit your LaTeX source to the journal, they'll use the buggy style and your work will be for nought. (But do tell the creators of the style about the bug). What you should do is put the fixed version in the preamble of your document, after \usepackage{evocomp}, like this:

\makeatletter
\def\@cite#1#2{{$^{\mbox{\scriptsize $#1$}}$%
    \if@tempswa , #2\fi}$^{\mbox{\scriptsize $)$}}$}
\makeatother

Do this and you won't need to mess with \hboxing your citations anymore-- they'll work as they're meant to.

Answer 2

If you are using inline citation in a paragraph then simply put a tilde(~) symbol with the text. For example,

[YOUR TEXT]~\cite{[CITATION]}.

If its figure or table, you can simply put full-stop in caption tag. For example,

\caption{[TEXT FOR YOUR FIGURE]~\cite{[CITATION]}.}

This will occur the citation to stick with the text.