[Tex/LaTex] Article title not linebreaking correctly in bibliography

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I have a problem with below title in my bibliography. For some reason it won't linebreak correctly and instead runs into the margins of my document. I have found posts dealing with how to add linebreaks for URLs but nothing about article titles in the bibliography. Does anybody know what I might be able to do here?

Here is a picture of what I get as output:

MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\hoffset=-25.4mm \textwidth=170mm \oddsidemargin=20mm
\voffset=-25.4mm \textheight=245mm \topmargin=13.5mm
\headheight=6mm \headsep=6.9mm \footskip=6.9mm
\usepackage[style=numeric-comp,sorting=none,backend=biber,isbn=false,date=year,url=false]{biblatex}
\renewbibmacro{in:}{}
\AtEveryBibitem{
    \iffieldundef{pages}{}{\clearfield{doi}}
}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Debnath2013,
author = {Debnath, Mainak and Dutta, Arpan and Biswas, Surajit and Das, Kalyan Kumar and Lee, Hon Man and V{\'{i}}cha, Jan and Marek, Radek and Marek, Jaromir and Ali, Mahammad},
doi = {10.1016/j.poly.2013.07.013},
file = {:D$\backslash$:/pmj27/Mendeley/Library/Debnath et al. - 2013 - Catalytic oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons by mono-oxido-alkoxidovanadium(V) complexes of ONNO donor ethylened.pdf:pdf},
issn = {02775387},
journal = {Polyhedron},
keywords = {benzoic acid,ethylenediamine- bis,phenolate,terpenes,toluene},
mendeley-tags = {benzoic acid,terpenes,toluene},
month = {oct},
pages = {189--198},
publisher = {Elsevier Ltd},
title = {{Catalytic oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons by mono-oxido-alkoxidovanadium(V) complexes of ONNO donor ethylenediamine-bis(phenolate) ligands}},
url = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S027753871300538X},
volume = {63},
year = {2013}
}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}

\cite{Debnath2013}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Best Answer

You basically have three possibilities for solving this, since TeX doesn't know how to hyphenate these long chemical names.

Add discretionary hyphens \- in the appropriate places in the .bib entries of problematic titles.
Set the bibliography unjustified by putting \raggedright before your \printbibliography command.
1. Keep the bibliography justified but put \sloppy before your \printbibliography command.

I would try (1) or (2) first, and only resort to (3) if you absolutely must have the bibliography justified.

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You can get the numbers by setting the equation counter to one less than the first number you want, in this case 19. You had a glitch after the {split} because you used \newline, which is a text and not a math command. Don't mix the two! I put in \\ instead, and a \notag to suppress the number that would be there (going by your example). Finally, I replaced your explicit spacing in the last few lines with an {aligned} subenvironment, which allows me to get the final equations lined up as well as automatically spread out.

  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage[fleqn]{amsmath}

  \begin{document}

  \setcounter{equation}{19}
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  Q(CSAD_t(\tau)|\mathbf{Z})
        = \alpha(\tau) + \beta(\tau)|R_{M,t}| + \gamma(\tau)R_{M,t}^2 + \epsilon_t \\
  \begin{aligned}
  Q(CSAD_t(\tau)|\mathbf{Z})
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In case the four letters A, C, G, and T that make up the 12-letter "word" refer to base molecules in a DNA chain, I'd give the nod to (a) allowing a line break only after groups of four letters and (b) not employing a hyphenation character at the break point. Thus, I'd write

CGTA\hspace{0pt}GATC\hspace{0pt}TACG

The \hspace{0pt} directives allow line breaks but won't be visible if no line break is needed. If you do wish to employ a hyphenation character at the linebreak point, write the word as CGTA\-GATC\-TACG instead.

Regarding the angstrom symbol: I think the best way to handle this issue is to employ the \SI macro of the siunitx package and to write the quantity/unit combination as

{\relax \SI{2.25}{\angstrom}}

That way, the spacing between the quantity and the unit is guaranteed to be appropriate. The \relax part is there to keep biber/biblatex from complaining about a non-existing problem with lower-casing letters.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{xyz.bib}
@article{leonard_crystal_1993,
  title = {Crystal and molecular structure of d({CGTA\hspace{0pt}GATC\hspace{0pt}TACG}) 
           at {\relax \SI{2.25}{\angstrom}} resolution},
  volume = {234},
  issn = {0022-2836},
  url = {http://www.pdb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=119D},
  doi = {10.1006/jmbi.1993.1574},
  timestamp = {2015-09-02T12:35:06Z},
  urldate = {2015-08-31},
  journal = {J.Mol.Biol.},
  author = {Leonard, G. A. and Hunter, W. N.},
  month = apr,
  year = {1993},
  pages = {198--208},
  pmid = {8230199}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[tmargin=1in, hmargin=1.25in]{geometry}

\usepackage[
  style=ieee, 
  citestyle=numeric-comp,
  natbib=true,
  sorting=none,
  url=false,
  doi=true,
  isbn=false,
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{xyz.bib}

\usepackage{siunitx} % for "\SI" macro

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}
    \cite{leonard_crystal_1993}
    \printbibliography 
\end{document}

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