[Tex/LaTex] How to level columns in bibliography

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I have been writing a scientific paper il Latex for an IEEE conference.

The paper style is in 2 columns, and the last page of the paper contains a part of bibliography references.
These last references are all on the 1st column, leaving the 2nd column empty.
I would like that these last reference lines were equally divided into both columns, as shown in the attached image:

I hope the image is clear…

The bibliography style I've been using is {thebibliography}

I knew there is a Latex command that allows me to separate the reference this way.
How could I do?

Best Answer

You can use balance package. Put

\usepackage{balance}

in the preamble. Then, somewhere in the first column of the last page, put

\balance

Following is a screen shot from the manual of balance package.

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Disclaimer: This solution may work depending on your class and bibliography style or (worst) may not work. To have an accurate answer, pl provide a MWE.

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Background and explanation

The problem is indeed in the flushend package. This makes the last columns on the last be of equal length, which is a favorable look for some. When a column reaches its full length without flushend it inserts a columnbreak and removes any whitespace.

If this break happens between two paragraphs instead of in the middle of one it removes the space that would otherwise be between these two paragraphs. When flushend does its magic it cannot account for this and the result is two paragraphs with no whitespace between them.

Contacting the author of the flushend package I received the following answer and proposed solution. In short, the 'bug' is due to the order of events. And the solution is to find the column break and add a manual space to match the paragraph spacing between the other paragraphs.

Have you tried something like: \atColsBreak{\vskip5pt} near the end of document? In the current implementation of the package it is more feature then a bug. At the columnbreak all glue/kern elements at that position are lost during page formating (leftcolumn builder). At the end of document is too late get the removed skips.

Regards, Sigitas Tolusis

Solution

Add the following near the end of the document and change the size until it matches the other spaces between paragraphs.

\atColsBreak{\vskip5pt}

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