[Tex/LaTex] How to remove this extra space before url in bibliography

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How do I remove this space please? I'm using the natbib package

space before url

Code from ref.bib

@article{stats2017,
  title={Digest of Education Statistics 2017},
  author={\text{Statistics Mauritius}},
  year={2017},
  url={\url{http://statsmauritius.govmu.org/English/Publications/Pages/Edu_Stats_Yr2017.aspx}}
}

bibliography style

%\printbibliography
\setcitestyle{numbers} % set the citation style to ``numbers''.
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{ref.bib}

Best Answer

The easiest solution, assuming your TeX distribution is reasonably up to date, consists of loading the xurl package; it allows arbritary line breaks in URL strings. Should your TeX distribution lack the xurl package, I suggest you (a) load the url package with the options spaces and hyphens and (b) switch to \raggedright right before \bibliography{ref}.

Whatever else you do, please encase the author field in an extra pair of curly braces. Doing so informs BibTeX that it's dealing with a "corporate" author and not with a person whose first name is "Statistics" and whose surname is "Mauritius". And do get rid of the \text wrapper too, as it is not appropriate here.

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\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{ref.bib}
@article{stats2017,
  title  = "{Digest of Education Statistics 2017}",
  author = "{Statistics Mauritius}",
  year   = 2017,
  url    = "http://statsmauritius.govmu.org/English/Publications/Pages/Edu_Stats_Yr2017.aspx",
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[numbers,round]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\renewcommand\harvardurl[1]{\textbf{URL}: \url{#1}} % optional
\usepackage{xurl} % allow line breaks anywhere in URL string

\begin{document}
\cite{stats2017}
\bibliography{ref}  % not "\bibliography{ref.bib}"
\end{document}
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