I would use links for this purpose, which org-mode would get right across
lines. For instance, here is a cite link:
https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/prelude/jorg-bib.el#L332

so you use cite:bibkey1,bibkey2 or [[cite:bibkey1, bibkey2]] instead of
\cite{bibkey1,bibkey2}. At export time, the link is converted to the latex
they way you need it.

The code at the link above does a lot more than that and may not be
directly suitable for what you are doing, e.g. when I click on the link, it
opens my bibtex file at the entry I clicked on, etc... See this page:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-hyperlink-types.html for another example
of making your own links.

John

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_@lvh.io> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm using org-mode with the LaTeX export to write a book. I'm having
> issues with inline LaTeX citations (\cite{some label}) and glossary
> references (\gls{some label}). When the label (the thing in between the
> curly braces) is split across lines, the org-mode LaTeX exporter escapes
> the curly braces, so I get something like:
>
> the beginning of the line \cite\{the first part of the label
> the latter part of the label\} the rest of the line
>
> The extra escaping of the curlies makes LaTeX very unhappy. I would like
> to teach org-mode that stuff like that needs to be kept together, much like
> $math mode stuff$. I tried reading the manual for advice, but those are
> neither inline math (so not $$ delimited) nor an environment (\begin{} and
> \end{} delimited), which are the two cases that the manual covers.
>
> thanks in advance
> lvh
>