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:

	%% round - round parentheses are used (default)
	%% square - square brackets are used [option]
	%% curly - curly braces are used {option}
	%% angle - angle brackets are used <option>
	%% semicolon - multiple citations separated by semi-colon
	%% colon - same as semicolon, an earlier confusion
	%% comma - separated by comma
	%% numbers- selects numerical citations
	%% super - numerical citations as superscripts
	%% sort - sorts multiple citations according to order in ref.
	list
	%% sort&compress - like sort, but also compresses numerical
	citations
	%% compress - compresses without sorting
	%%
	%% \biboptions{comma,round}

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For example:
\documentclass[3p]{elsarticle}
\biboptions{sort&compress}
%...