[Tex/LaTex] Reduce spacing in bibliography using biblatex

biblatexspacing

How can you control (in my case reduce) the spacing of the bibliography in biblatex? I used to use

\begin{spacing}{0.9}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{refs}
\end{spacing}

and

\setlength{\bibsep}{0.0pt}. But how do you do the equivalent in biblatex?

EDIT: I should maybe have mentioned I am using

\begin{refsection}

\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography]

\end{refsection}

[..]


\begin{refsection}

to get multiple bibliographies and I would like to be able to control the spacing per bib.

\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography]

\end{refsection}

Best Answer

\bibitemsep length between two different entries, preset to \itemsep

\bibnamesep length between two entries of different authors

\bibinitsep length between two entries of authors with different first letter

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}% Part of the TeX distribution
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
\begin{document}
\blindtext

\singlespacing\blindtext

\nocite{*}

\begingroup
\setstretch{0.8}
\setlength\bibitemsep{0pt}
\printbibliography
\endgroup

\end{document}

enter image description here

By the way: I prefer to typeset a bibliography with \RaggedRight (from package ragged2e)

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Global and per chapter bibliographies

I use segments instead of sections. Then you get the same and unique keys for the global bibliography, and you can get a global bibliography as well.

The final \printbibliography which doesn't state which segment it is for shows all segments. This works (for me), even though I don't think this is what the Biblatex documentation says. It says that the default for segment is "0" and segment 0 consists only of the citations outside of any environments. (If you put segment=0 there explicitly you get no list there.)

\begin{filecontents}{refs.bib}
@Book{book1,
  author =       {Thor, A. U.},
  year =         2012,
  title =    {Book1}}

@Book{book2,
  author =       {Thor, A. U.},
  year =         2013,
  title =    {Book2}}

@Book{book3,
  author =       {Thor, A. U.},
  year =         2014,
  title =    {Book3}}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\begin{document} 
\tableofcontents
\section{Foo}
\begin{refsegment}
  \cite{book1}
  \printbibliography[segment=1, title={First bib}, heading=subbibintoc]
\end{refsegment}

\section{Bar}
\begin{refsegment}
  \cite{book2}

  \printbibliography[segment=2, title={Second bib}, heading=subbibintoc]
\end{refsegment}

\printbibliography[title={Global bib}, heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Removing blank space above bibliography items

It is due to the \topsep as the bibliography is typeset as a list. If you make \topsep and \partopsep zero, then the problem is solved. Taking egreg's code and adding \setlength{\topsep}{0pt} and \setlength{partopsep}{0pt} in the re-definition of thebibliography removes the extra space.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]
     {\list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
           {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
            \leftmargin\labelwidth
            \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}                     %%<--- here. 
            \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}
            \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
            \@openbib@code
            \usecounter{enumiv}%
            \let\p@enumiv\@empty
            \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
      \sloppy
      \clubpenalty4000
      \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
      \widowpenalty4000%
      \sfcode`\.\@m}
     {\def\@noitemerr
       {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
      \endlist}
\makeatother          % let's get rid of the caption 'References'
\usepackage{bibunits}
\usepackage{paracol}
\setcolumnwidth{3cm,10cm}  % column widths
\begin{document}
\noindent\textbf{Published articles}
\par\begin{paracol}{2}
  \noindent peer-reviewed\\journals
  \switchcolumn
  \begin{bibunit}\nocite{*}\putbib[pub]\end{bibunit}
\end{paracol}
\end{document}

enter image description here

Here is a stab using tcolorbox as an added bonus:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\def\section*#1{}          % let's get rid of the caption 'References'
\usepackage{bibunits}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{skins,breakable}
\newtcolorbox{mycolumn}[1][]{
    colback=white,
    left=0.5ex,
    top=0pt,
    arc=0pt,
    outer arc=0pt,
    enlarge left by=1in,
    enlarge right by=-\dimexpr1in+\parindent\relax,
    right=\dimexpr1in\relax,
    leftrule=0pt,
    rightrule=0pt,
    toprule=0pt,
    bottomrule=0pt,
    breakable,
    nobeforeafter,
    enhanced jigsaw,
    overlay={
      \node[anchor=north east,inner sep=0pt,align=left,text width=1in]
        at ([yshift=-1.5ex]frame.north west) {#1};
    },
    before=\vskip\itemsep\noindent
  }

\begin{document}
\noindent\textbf{Published articles}
\begin{mycolumn}[peer-reviewed\\journals] 
  \begin{bibunit}
    \nocite{*}
    \putbib[xampl]
  \end{bibunit}
\end{mycolumn}
\end{document}

enter image description here

Adjust all instances 1in in the definition of mucolumn suitably. Advantage with tcolorbox is one can go fancy with colors and border rules.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Global and per chapter bibliographies

[Tex/LaTex] Removing blank space above bibliography items

Related Question