[Tex/LaTex] Hanging indent for bibliography items

indentation

Just wondering, how would I reproduce this indentation formalism for certain scientific Journals:

Currently for the following LaTeX input

Draine, B. T., 2003, ARA\&A, 41, 241\\
Dufour, R. J. 1984, in IAU Symp. 108, Structure and Evolution of the Magellanic
Clouds, ed. S. van den Bergh \& K. S. de Boer (Dordrecht: Reidel), 353\\
Fitzpatrick, E. L., 1986, AJ, 92 , 1068\\
Fitzpatrick, E. L., 1999, PASP, 111, 63\\

I am seeing this:

Would be nice to see a little indentation going on for the Dufour reference. Any pro tips would be warmly welcomed!

Best Answer

Disclaimer

Please note (for others who may read this) that this is not the recommended way to format a bibliography, but in a pinch, it does what you want.

Manually creating hanging paragraphs

The hanging package provides a hangparas environment that can do what you want. Notice I've removed the trailing \\ from your code. \\ should not be used to create new paragraphs.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hanging}
\begin{document}
\begin{hangparas}{.25in}{1}
Draine, B. T., 2003, ARA\&A, 41, 241

Dufour, R. J. 1984, in IAU Symp. 108, Structure and Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds, ed. S. van den Bergh \& K. S. de Boer (Dordrecht: Reidel), 353

Fitzpatrick, E. L., 1986, AJ, 92 , 1068

Fitzpatrick, E. L., 1999, PASP, 111, 63
\end{hangparas}
\end{document}

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Another option, not requiring packages would be to use the TeX primitive \parshape:

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\begin{document}
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\end{document}

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