[Tex/LaTex] How to change margin for first page of Bibliography Only

apa-styleapa6bibliographiesgeometrymargins

I need the top margin to be 2 inches on the first page of my Bibliography and all subsequent pages in the Bibliography to have 1 inch top margins. I am using BibTeX to manage my references and using natbib to format them in the apa6 document class.

I know that the geometry package can specify new margins for a specific page (\newgeometry{top=2in}), but how can this be used for the Bibliography since it is created all at once?

Not sure how to show a MWE since this would require a .bib file…

\documentclass[man,12pt,natbib]{apa6}
\begin{document}

\renewcommand{\refname}{REFERENCES}    % W/out this command, it is not all capital letters.
\setlength{\bibsep}{12pt}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{myreferences}

\end{document}

Best Answer

I had this same issue trying to reduce the top margin of my bibliography on all pages except for the first.

This is more of a workaround than a solution but it saved me a lot of time having tried multiple other suggestions online.

This will only be of use to some people if, like me, formatting the bibliography only becomes a concern when the rest of a document is written.

What I did was I copied the contents of the .bbl file generated by BibTeX into my .tex document and manually reducing vertical spacing at the points where page breaks occur using

\newpage
\vspace*{-0.5in}

or whatever distance you need. Remember to remove the \bibliography{} command once this is done.

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