Superscript citations in numeric-comp style

Question

to meet the requirements for our lab reports I need to use a special citation style. It is basically the numeric-comp style from biblatex but the citations shall be superscripts. Everything else is to be the same. As I am using KOMA-Script(documentclass scrartcl), I cannot load the cite-package, because LaTeX tells me they are incompatible. For now, I used this trick below but that is not a good solution, as I would have to define a new command for every different number of references when multiple citing.

\newcommand{\supcite}[1]{$^{\text{\cite{#1}}}$}

I am using Biber, if that is relevant. Does anyone have a solution for this problem? Thanks in advance.

Welcome to TeX SX! Did you try with biblatex? It's easier to customise. — Bernard, Apr 15 '16 at 14:01
You can use the command \supercite. If you insist you can reroute \cite to \supercite. Note though that in that case you can't use pre- or postnotes. — moewe, Apr 15 '16 at 15:38
Off-topic: They should probably be text superscripts rather than maths superscripts. — cfr, Apr 15 '16 at 23:41
The \supercite command fits my needs except of one thing: The citations are not put in brackets which is needed (and I would prefer it because I am often citing specific data so that the citations might be mixed up with exponents). Is it possible to modify the \supercite command? — Enno, Apr 18 '16 at 06:46
Check out Biblatex supercite command with use of square brackets (like a reference style in Wikipedia). Though you probably need to move those \bibopenbrackets/\bibclosebrackets a bit, and there are some changes needed for numeric-comp, so I have written down the answer below. — moewe, Apr 18 '16 at 11:51

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '16 at 11:54

Just use the following redefinition of \supercite with just \bibopenbracket and \bibclosebracket sprinkled in.

\DeclareCiteCommand{\supercite}[\mkbibsuperscript]
  {\bibopenbracket
   \usebibmacro{cite:init}%
   \let\multicitedelim=\supercitedelim
   \iffieldundef{prenote}
     {}
     {\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring prenote argument}}%
   \iffieldundef{postnote}
     {}
     {\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring postnote argument}}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite:comp}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:dump}%
   \bibclosebracket}

If you replace the \supercite above by \cite you redefine the standard \cite command.

Superscript citations in numeric-comp style

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