Document Classes ⇒ problem with natbib

[adhikarig]

Hi everyone

I am using natbib package for bibliography. Could anyone please tell me how to change the font size and position of bibliography title from the default. I am using book class as default one.

I set default chapter title as 14pt garamond font, ragged right.

but in bibliography it shows 18pt normal font.

Is there any option to modify this...

many thanks

gopal

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi gopal,

see natbib documentation 2.12 Other Formatting Options. There it's described how you can change the heading (\bibsection). If you still have questions just tell us.

Stefan

[adhikarig]

Hi Stefan

Thanks for your kind reply. I already tried that option with titlesec package as follows

\renewcommand{\bibsection}{%
\titleformat{\chapter} {\normalfont\large\filcenter\bfseries}{}{}{}
\titlespacing*{\chapter} {0pt}{60pt}{18pt}
\chapter*{ \bibname \markboth{\bibname}{\bibname}%
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bibname}} }

But it does not work. Is there any other way to modify this....

I have another problem with package titlesec. When i use long section title, it becomes hyphenated. How could I avoid those hyphens in my title...

Thanks

gopal

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi gopal,

that should work. When I tried your code and even wrote \tiny instead of \large then the bibliography heading becomes very small. One short working example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[urw-garamond]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\renewcommand{\bibsection}{%
\titleformat{\chapter} {\normalfont\tiny\filcenter\bfseries}{}{}{}
\titlespacing*{\chapter} {0pt}{60pt}{18pt}
\chapter*{ \bibname \markboth{\bibname}{\bibname}%
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bibname}} }

\begin{document}
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{test} test
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

If it's not working for you then post here a compilable minimal working example that shows the unwanted behaviour. We could compile, test and perhaps correct it.

Stefan

[adhikarig]

Hi Stefan

I also tried that option. But it did not work. so I attached my class file here with.

Thanks for your help.

Gopal

[alexbowers]

Have you tried using \newcommand{\bibfont}{\tiny}?

There is quite a good guide to natbib here: http://www.mps.mpg.de/software/latex/lo ... natbib.pdf

[localghost]

[...] There is quite a good guide to natbib here: http://www.mps.mpg.de/software/latex/lo ... natbib.pdf

This is the official user guide of natbib which can also be found on CTAN.


Best regards
Thorsten¹