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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label compactbib</title>
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<h3>Reducing spacing in the bibliography</h3>
<p/>Bibliographies are, in fact, implemented as lists, so all the
confusion about <a href="FAQ-complist.html">reducing list item spacing</a> also
applies to bibliographies.
<p/>If the <i>natbib</i> package ‘works’ for you (it may not if you are using
some special-purpose bibliography style), the solution is relatively
simple — add
<blockquote>
<pre>
\usepackage{natbib}
\setlength{\bibsep}{0.0pt}
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</blockquote><p>
to the preamble of your document.
<p/>Otherwise, one is into unseemly hacking of something or other. The
<i>mdwlist</i> package actually does the job, but it doesn’t work
here, because it makes a different-named list, while the name
“<code>thebibliography</code>” is built into LaTeX and
BibTeX. Therefore, we need to
<a href="FAQ-patch.html">patch the underlying macro</a>:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\let\oldbibliography\thebibliography
\renewcommand{\thebibliography}[1]{%
\oldbibliography{#1}%
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
The <i>savetrees</i> package performs such a patch, among a
plethora of space-saving measures: you can, in principle, suppress all
its other actions, and have it provide you a compressed bibliography
<em>only</em>.
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<dt><tt><i>mdwlist.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>natbib.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/natbib</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>savetrees.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees.zip">macros/latex/contrib/savetrees</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=compactbib">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=compactbib</a>
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