[Tex/LaTex] How to shrink the URL font size in bibliography’s or references sections

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I have a document (an article) which I am writing and it includes a references section at the end in the form of a bibliography. I am using the hyperref package and setting the bibliography manually via

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
  \bibitem{..}

  \bibitem{..}

  ...
\end{thebibliography}

In the current font size (11, which doesn't seem unreasonable) the URL's I am inserting often run over several lines. I would like to shrink them to either size 10 or size 9 point font.

How can I do this?

Is there a \fontsize{text here} command or something like that which I can use?

Best Answer

My suggestion would be against adjusting font sizes in favour of consistency. If line-breaking is a problem, consider following the suggestions in Forcing linebreaks in \url.

However, you can change the font size of a URL locally using

... {\small \url{<URL>}} ...

For making a global change to font sizes, use

\renewcommand{\UrlFont}{\ttfamily\small}

in your preamble.

Depending on the size of \normalsize, \small will provide the next step smaller text. For a list of the font sizes associated with these font switches/declarations, see What point (pt) font size are \Large etc.?

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Reducing bibliography font size

Enclose the thebibliography environment in a group and switch to \footnotesize within the group. EDIT: Or even better, switch to \footnotesize inside the thebibliography environment.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\section{foo}

Some text in \verb|\normalsize| \cite{test}.

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\footnotesize

\bibitem{test} A bibliography item in \verb|\footnotesize|.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Font size of \url in footnote

\renewcommand*{\UrlFont}{\normalsize} does not make the font size smaller:

Normal text has normal size: \normalsize. Thus you get the same size.
\normalsize is a fixed size, thus the size does not adopt to different environments such as footnotes.
It removes \ttfamily, thus you get the same font as in the context.

Same font

If you want to have the same font for the URLs as the text before, then it can be set by \urlstyle{same}:

\documentclass[a6paper,11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks,
  urlcolor=Blue}

\urlstyle{same}

\begin{document}

Text Text Text Text Text\footnote{WWW: \url{http://www.google.com/}}
Text Text Text Text Text Text Text\footnote{Homepage: \url{Homepage}}  Text Text Text Text Text Text TextText Text Text Text Text Text TextText Text Text Text Text Text Text \url{Text}

\end{document}

Smaller URL font size

If you only want to have smaller font sizes for URLs, then package relsize helps. \relsize{-1} or \smaller\relax can be used (the \relax prevents \smaller from searching for its optional argument in the next input tokens).

\documentclass[a6paper,11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks,
  urlcolor=Blue}

\renewcommand*{\UrlFont}{\ttfamily\smaller\relax}

\begin{document}

Text Text Text Text Text\footnote{WWW: \url{http://www.google.com/}}
Text Text Text Text Text Text Text\footnote{Homepage: \url{Homepage}}  Text
Text Text Text Text Text TextText Text Text Text Text Text TextText Text
Text Text Text Text Text \url{Text}

\end{document}