I want to use a smaller font size for the bibliography, e.g., \footnotesize. What is the easiest way to achieve this? I currently do \renewenvironment{thebibliography}...
and copy the definition from report.cls but with the \footnotesize
inserted in. However, that seems to be a bit of a hack, so I'm looking for a cleaner way.
[Tex/LaTex] How to change font size for bibliography
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Best Answer
First I have to say that you should avoid fiddling with font sizes in order to squish more text into a document. Conferences and journals often discourage such formatting hacks; some might even reject papers found to be doing this.
Anyway, if you still need to to this for whatever reason, the easiest way I found is to write something like