Page Layout ⇒ Additional Space after Bibliography Title

[piltdownpunk]

Hello.

I'm trying to add space under my bibliography's title. My bibliography is saved as a BibTeX file, and I've created my own style using the "makebst" package. Thus, it will be difficult to include a "minimal working example" here. My chapters are separate files, so the end of my main file looks like this:

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\include{Conclusions}
\pagebreak
\singlespacing
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Literature Cited}
\renewcommand{\bibname}{Literature Cited}
\bibliography{DisBib}
\bibliographystyle{aapalike}
\end{document}

Everything is right, except the first bib item starts on the very next line under the bibliography title, "Literature Cited."

The code governing the spacing on all my other chapters is this:

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\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\normalsize\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{1em}{\normalfont\bfseries}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{0pt}

Is there any way to get some space between the bib title and the first entry? Thanks so much.

--Trey

[kaiserkarl13]

You left off the most important part of your example: the preamble. The document class, in particular, determines how chapters and sections (the bibliography is one or the other) are formatted.

[piltdownpunk]

Hello.

Thanks for the reply, and I apologize for leaving out that info. The preamble is below. Thanks.

--Trey

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage{natbib}
\setcitestyle{notesep={:}}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[top=1.0in, bottom=1.0in, left=1.0in, right=1.0in]{geometry}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\setlength{\footskip}{20pt}
\frenchspacing
\tolerance=1000
\hyphenpenalty=1000

\begin{document}

[kaiserkarl13]

I found several problems. First: natbib and cite are not compatible; pick one or the other, not both. Second: you included both natbib and cite TWICE. I couldn't even get this to run through LaTeX until I removed the "cite" packages; that may be a cause of other problems.

The reason you're getting spacing you don't like is because you didn't include any whitespace after your chapter headings. You will have the same amount of space below every chapter heading. If you want further space below the chapter headings, either leave the definitions alone or define your new heading style with spacing the way you want it (it's the \titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{0pt} that looks suspicious to me).