Latex: Citation Order for elsarticle

To order citations in your paper, you might want to use cite package like this:
\usepackage{cite}
However, as it was described here, the package conflicts with natbib package embedded into elsarticle.


The solution is to use biboptions:
For example:
\documentclass[3p]{elsarticle}
\biboptions{sort&compress}
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