[Tex/LaTex] How to modify line spacing per entry of bibliography

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I am using Easy-Thesis template to write my thesis. I downloaded this template from writelatex website.

I am using natbib to format my bibliography style. This generate nice layout for the bibliography. But what I find is the distance between lines in a bibliography entry. The spacing between lines in a entry is about 4pt. I want them to be close to each other. The next entry should be about 10pt apart. What now I have is the spacing between all the lines (within entry and between entries) is the same through out whole bibliography.

I have entered commands like 

\usepackage[super,sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage{natbib}
\setlength{\bibsep}{0.0pt}

But seems it doesnt help me.

Best Answer

I'm assuming the template is this one: https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/thesis/easy-thesis/ (it is the only easy-thesis I've found).

The template uses \setstretch{1.3} which increases the baseline skip of a 1.3 factor. That's why you have "about 4pt" between lines of the same bibliography entry.

To achieve what you want, it suffices to restore the normal baseline skip through the command

\setstretch{1}

and set the distance between items to 10pt through the command

\setlength{\bibsep}{10pt}

In other words, if your .bib file is named Bibliography.bib, use the following lines to insert your bibliography in the document:

\begingroup
    \setlength{\bibsep}{10pt}
    \setstretch{1}
    \bibliography{Bibliography}
\endgroup

MWE:

\documentclass{Thesis}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{Bibliography.bib}
@article{art1,
author="First Last",
title="A fictitious journal article",
year=1900,
journal="Journal of nothingness",
volume=2,
pages="1-2"
}
@article{art2,
author="First Last",
title="A very very very very very very very very very very very very long journal article",
year=1900,
journal="Journal of nothingness",
volume=2,
pages="1-2"
}
@book{boo1,
author="Respectable Writer",
title="A silly book",
year=2000,
publisher="PublishCo",
address="Somewhere"
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[super,sort&compress]{natbib}

\usepackage{lipsum} % only for the example

\begin{document}

\setstretch{1.3}

\chapter{Test}
\lipsum[1-8]

\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}

\begingroup
    \setlength{\bibsep}{10pt}
    \setstretch{1}
    \bibliography{Bibliography}
\endgroup

\end{document}

Output

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Just in case I was wrong with the template and you get errors with \setstretch{1}, replace it with

\linespread{1}\selectfont
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