Page Layout ⇒ Citations spilling into margins

[gdsaxton]

Hi,

I am relatively new to LaTeX and am having a problem I haven't seen on any of the forums. Specifically, I am using natbib, and when a citation (e.g., \citep command) is close to the right-hand-side of the margin and it's a long citation (e.g., Weisbrod and Dominguez, 1986), the text spills over into the margins in the PDF document, which is rather ugly. This is the only place in any of my documents where I've had a problem with the margins. Any advice?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[localghost]

I think the closest solution is to reorganize the concerned sentence. That would make the citation appear at another place.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[gdsaxton]

Thanks, that does work, I was just hoping for another solution.

[arwintcher]

I don't know if this helps you, but I found that some of my references had extra {}s around parts of it, especially the title. I think the intention is to preserve the formatting, but it had the effect of forcing very long titles or lists of authors onto one line.

I took out the extra brackets and the titles wrapped around lines, like I would expect them to.

I don't know if this effect is specific to JabRef, but that's where I noticed it.

[gdsaxton]

Thanks, but unfortunately that's not it. I still haven't been able to figure it out--the only solution I've found is rearranging the sentence whenever it occurs.

[arwintcher]

I know it's been a while since you posted this but I just found a solution for a similar problem and thought it might help you.

Are you using natbib together with hyperref, by any chance? If so, then try adding breaklinks to hyperref. It fixed my problem with citations refusing to break from one line to the next!

Like this:
\usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref}

[gdsaxton]

Thanks! I never found a good solution other than moving the citation, so I'll give this a whirl. Thanks for sharing.

[arismendi]

I was having the same problem using springer template with natbib (spbasic.bst). The problem was I had:

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\citep{Goldenberg}, \citep{Gupta}

I changed it to

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\citep{Goldenberg, Gupta}

and problem solved. I hope this could be useful for someone.

Cheers!