[Tex/LaTex] How to change font size for bibliography

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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.

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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

{\footnotesize
\bibliography{bibfile}}

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[Tex/LaTex] Change font size relative to current font size

Have a look at the relsize package. Package description:

The basic command of the package is \relsize, whose argument is a number of \magsteps to change size; from this are defined commands \larger, \smaller, \textlarger, etc.

[Tex/LaTex] Change font size in arabtex package

By using what the arabtex names "small" version, you get reduced size that's comparable to the size of Latin characters:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{arabtex,lipsum}

%%% from Uxnsh.fd
\DeclareFontFamily{U}{xnsh}{}%

\DeclareFontShape{U}{xnsh}{m}{n}{%                                   
   <-6> sfixed * [6.0] xnsh14
      <6-10> s * [1.20] xnsh14
         <10><10.95><12><14.4><17.28><20.74><24.88> s * [1.20] xnsh14
         }{}

\DeclareFontShape{U}{xnsh}{bx}{n}{%
   <-6> sfixed * [6.0] xnsh14bf
   <6-10> s * [1.20] xnsh14bf
   <10><10.95><12><14.4><17.28><20.74><24.88> s * [1.20] xnsh14bf
}{}
%%% end of added code


\begin{document}


\lipsum*[2]
\RL{f.s.hY AltrA_t} % Arabic word
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

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