[Tex/LaTex] What font size is used in the ‘thebibliography’ environment

Question

I'm preparing an application for the NSF GRFP and I'm checking to make sure my research plan conforms to their standards. Looking it over, it looks like LaTeX's thebibliography environment uses a slightly smaller font in the references section. I have the document set to 12 point font, but the references section has a font that looks distinctly smaller. Is this the way thebibliography is supposed to work? How can I find out how small the font is? (I'm using amsart if that helps.)

Answer 1

since you're using amsart, you can adjust the size of the font in the bibliography with a single command:

\renewcommand{\bibliofont}{<desired font size>}

the default setting is \newcommand{\bibliofont}{\footnotesize}. if you want the same size type as the main text, then \normalsize is what you should specify.