I am using the thebibliography command in LaTeX to generate a bibliography under a "References" heading at the end of a paper. My bibliography is not stored in a separate TeX file, but rather is just typed under the command \begin{thebibliography} at the end of the paper. I would like to reduce the font size of my bibliography. I tried using the command suggested in the first answer here How to change font size for bibliography?, but it did not seem to work for me. It appears to be intended for documents with a separate bibliography file, which I do not have. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can reduce the font size with thebibliography?
[Tex/LaTex] Reducing bibliography font size
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Depending on where you are releasing your paper the appropriate font size is different. A journal will have its own formatting standards, quite likely its own documentclass, and you should follow that. Mathematicians who "publish" papers to the arXiv tend to just use the defaults, so a lot of papers there are 10pt. Many people (such as those with poor eyesight, and also me) express a preference for 12pt, which is done via \documentclass[12pt]{article} (or whatever class you use); if you do that, you can also use the geometry package to change the margins to one inch: \usepackage{geometry}\geometry{margin=1in}, as the default large margins start to look silly with fuller text.
The hyphens are inserted automatically by TeX because you are using too many long words. Sometimes the microtype package can help with that, but sometimes, there's no other way to fit everything nicely onto the line.
pgfplots sets up a bunch of styles that determine how axis labels, titles, ticklabels etc. look. These can be redefined by adding options to the optional argument of the axis environment. For example, to change the size of the legend to \tiny, add legend style={font=\tiny}.
matlab2tikz allows you to append options to the axis with the extraAxisOptions parameter, so you could do something like
plot(1:4)
xlabel('x-label')
ylabel('y-label')
title('Title')
legend('A line')
matlab2tikz('Test2.tikz', ...
'height','\figureheight','width','\figurewidth', ...
'parseStringsAsMath',true,...
'extraaxisoptions',['title style={font=\Huge},'...
'xlabel style={font={\color{blue}\bfseries}},'...
'ylabel style={font=\tiny},',...
'legend style={font=\scshape},',...
'ticklabel style={font=\color{red}}']);
to get the (rather silly) result
Another option is to use one of the predefined styles small, footnotesize or tiny, which is used as e.g.
\begin{axis}[tiny,
... %any other axis options
Note that these also modify the width and height of the plot, as well some other settings, so if added to the end of the options, as they would be with extraAxisOptions, they would override your width and height setting. Hence, to use these I think you need to edit the .tikz files.
Best Answer
Enclose the
thebibliographyenvironment in a group and switch to\footnotesizewithin the group. EDIT: Or even better, switch to\footnotesizeinside thethebibliographyenvironment.