BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ biblio environment making large indentation

[lnsam22]

Hi All,

I couldn't find the right style I needed to list my references so I decided to use the \begin(end){thebibliography} environment. It worked out well except it began left-indenting which never happened when I used this before. Can anyone help me get it to start under, say, the letter 'f' in the heading "References" from the code below?

Thanks a bunch
lnsam22

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\documentclass{article}
%
\usepackage{amsmath}%
\usepackage{amsfonts}%
\usepackage{amssymb}%
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{graphics,color}
\usepackage[superscript]{cite}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}


\begin{thebibliography}{breitestes Label}
\small{
\makeatletter
\def\@biblabel#1{#1}
\makeatother
\bibitem {fuchs:02}C. A. Fuchs, "Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Information (and only a little more)", quant-ph/0205039v1.

\bibitem {cerf:97}N. J. Cerf and C Adami, "Quantum Information Theory of Entanglement and Measurement", quant-ph/9605039v2.

\bibitem {sarma:00}S. Das Sarma, Jaroslav Fabian, Xuedong Hu, Igor Zutic, "Spintronics: electron spin coherence, entanglement, and transport", cond-mat/9912040v3.
}
\end{thebibliography}

 \end{document}

[frabjous]

The problem is the "{breitestes Label}" argument after \begin{thebibliography}. I take it you got that from some template, but didn't change it. You're supposed to put something in there -- usually a number -- which indicates how wide the widest label will be, and then it indents each entry just enough to make room for the widest label. But if instead of a number you use the words "breitestes Label", it's identing enough so it would have room for there to be an entry with those words as its label!

So put in something like:

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\begin{thebibliography}{99}

instead. (Or change 99 to 999 or 9999 to make it wider and wider, etc.)

[lnsam22]

*embarassed* yes, i did copy that off the internet. Thanks, it works now.