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# Table of contents rearranges [`unsrt`](https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex) ordering

If you're using the [`unsrt`](https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex) bibliography style, you're expecting that your bibliography will _not_ be sorted, but that the entries will appear in the order that they first appeared in your document.

However, if you're unfortunate enough to need a citation in a section title, and you also have a table of contents, the citations that now appear in the table of contents will upset the natural ordering produced by the [`unsrt`](https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex) style. Similarly, if you have citations in captions, and have a list of figures (or tables).

There's a pretty simple manual method for dealing with the problem — when you have the document stable:

1. Delete the `aux` file, and any of `toc`,

  `lof`, `lot` files.

2. Run LaTeX. 3. Run BibTeX for the last time. 4. Run LaTeX often enough that things are stable again.

Which is indeed simple, but it's going to get tedious when you've found errors in your stable version, often enough.

The package [`notoccite`](https://ctan.org/pkg/notoccite) avoids the kerfuffle, and suppresses citations while in the table of contents, or lists of figures, tables (or other floating things: the code is quite general).